🐦
Emu
Dromaius novaehollandiae
Birds · Least concern
vs
🐐
Goat
Capra aegagrus hircus
Mammals · Not evaluated
One clip names both of them
82,372 views between them.
Goat outweighs Emu 1.8× — 61 kg against 34.1 kg. Both figures are averages across males and females.
To scale
Grid at 50 cm
50 cm
1 m
1.5 m
2 m
Silhouettes: PhyloPic — Darren Naish (vectorize by T. Michael Keesey) (CC BY); others CC0.
Emu
1.75 m
full standing height
Human
1.70 m
full standing height
for scale
Goat
0.64 m
at the shoulder
Tale of the tape
Body mass
34 kg
🐦 Emu · AVONET
61 kg
🐐 Goat · AnAge
Shoulder height
no figure yet
🐦 Emu
0.64 m
🐐 Goat
Maximum lifespan
17 yr
🐦 Emu · AnAge
21 yr
🐐 Goat · AnAge
Bars are sized against the larger of the two figures.
Animals caught on camera
Real footage of the animals on this site — hunting, fighting, and getting on with it.
Shared ancestry
The closest group they share is Tetrapoda (superclass), home to 51,389 species.
We know what their shared ancestor was, but not when it lived — no dated family tree spans both of them yet.