🦩
Great Egret
Ardea alba
Birds · Least concern
vs
🐟
Pike
Esox lucius
Fish · Least concern
One clip names both of them
1,762 views between them.
Pike outweighs Great Egret 18× — 15.6 kg against 0.9 kg. Both figures are averages across males and females.
Tale of the tape
Body mass
0.87 kg
🦩 Great Egret · AVONET
16 kg
🐟 Pike · AnAge
Body length
no figure yet
🦩 Great Egret
0.4 m
🐟 Pike · FishBase
Maximum lifespan
23 yr
🦩 Great Egret · AnAge
30 yr
🐟 Pike · 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 Gnathostomata (superclass), home to 90,802 species.
We know what their shared ancestor was, but not when it lived — no dated family tree spans both of them yet.