One clip names both of them

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Raccoon outweighs Greylag Goose 1.5× — 5.1 kg against 3.3 kg. Both figures are averages across males and females.

Tale of the tape

Body mass

3.3 kg

🪿 Greylag Goose · AVONET

5.08 kg

🦝 Raccoon · COMBINE

Shoulder height

no figure yet

🪿 Greylag Goose

0.3 m

🦝 Raccoon

Body length

no figure yet

🪿 Greylag Goose

0.6 m

🦝 Raccoon · COMBINE

Maximum lifespan

31 yr

🪿 Greylag Goose · AnAge

21 yr

🦝 Raccoon · COMBINE

Bars are sized against the larger of the two figures.

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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.