🐼
Giant panda
Ailuropoda melanoleuca
Carnivores · Vulnerable
vs
🦝
Raccoon
Procyon lotor
Carnivores · Least concern
One clip names both of them
2,409 views between them.
Giant panda outweighs Raccoon 23× — 118 kg against 5.1 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
for scale
Raccoon
0.30 m
at the shoulder
Tale of the tape
Body mass
118 kg
🐼 Giant panda · COMBINE
5.08 kg
🦝 Raccoon · COMBINE
Shoulder height
0.68 m
🐼 Giant panda
0.3 m
🦝 Raccoon
Body length
1.42 m
🐼 Giant panda · COMBINE
0.6 m
🦝 Raccoon · COMBINE
Maximum lifespan
37 yr
🐼 Giant panda · COMBINE
21 yr
🦝 Raccoon · COMBINE
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 Caniformia (suborder), home to 469 species.
They last shared an ancestor about 28 million years ago.
Estimates range from 24 to 34 million years; the figure above is the middle estimate.
About this estimate
Dates from Upham, Esselstyn & Jetz 2019, PLoS Biology 17:e3000494 (CC0).