🐿️
Groundhog
Marmota monax
Mammals · Least concern
vs
🧍
Human
Homo sapiens
Primates · Least concern
2 clips name both of them
4.3 million views between them.
Human outweighs Groundhog 18× — 62 kg against 3.4 kg.
Tale of the tape
Body mass
3.41 kg
🐿️ Groundhog · COMBINE
62 kg
🧍 Human · AnAge
Body length
0.51 m
🐿️ Groundhog · COMBINE
no figure yet
🧍 Human
Top speed
no figure yet
🐿️ Groundhog
38 km/h
🧍 Human
Bite force
no figure yet
🐿️ Groundhog
843 N
🧍 Human
Maximum lifespan
14 yr
🐿️ Groundhog · 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 Euarchontoglires (superorder), home to 4,379 species.
We know what their shared ancestor was, but not when it lived — no dated family tree spans both of them yet.