🐼
Giant panda
Ailuropoda melanoleuca
Carnivores · Vulnerable
vs
🧍
Human
Homo sapiens
Primates · Least concern
51 clips name both of them
148 million views between them.
Giant panda outweighs Human 1.9× — 118 kg against 62 kg.
To scale
Grid at 50 cm
50 cm
1 m
1.5 m
2 m
Silhouettes: PhyloPic (CC0).
Giant panda
0.68 m
at the shoulder
Human
1.70 m
full standing height
Tale of the tape
Body mass
118 kg
🐼 Giant panda · COMBINE
62 kg
🧍 Human · AnAge
Shoulder height
0.68 m
🐼 Giant panda
no figure yet
🧍 Human
Body length
1.42 m
🐼 Giant panda · COMBINE
no figure yet
🧍 Human
Top speed
no figure yet
🐼 Giant panda
38 km/h
🧍 Human
Bite force
no figure yet
🐼 Giant panda
843 N
🧍 Human
Maximum lifespan
37 yr
🐼 Giant panda · COMBINE
123 yr
🧍 Human · AnAge
Bars are sized against the larger of the two figures. Bite force figures come from individual studies and vary a lot between sources.
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 Theria (subclass), home to 9,319 species.
They last shared an ancestor about 81 million years ago.
Estimates range from 74 to 89 million years; the figure above is the middle estimate.
About this estimate
Dates from Upham, Esselstyn & Jetz 2019, PLoS Biology 17:e3000494 (CC0).