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Peregrine falcon
Falco peregrinus
Birds · Least concern
vs
🐿️
Eastern gray squirrel
Sciurus carolinensis
Mammals · Least concern
8 clips name both of them
11 million views between them.
Peregrine falcon outweighs Eastern gray squirrel 1.4× — 0.8 kg against 0.5 kg.
Tale of the tape
Body mass
0.76 kg
🦅 Peregrine falcon · AVONET
0.54 kg
🐿️ Eastern gray squirrel · COMBINE
Body length
no figure yet
🦅 Peregrine falcon
0.32 m
🐿️ Eastern gray squirrel · COMBINE
Maximum lifespan
25 yr
🦅 Peregrine falcon · AnAge
24 yr
🐿️ Eastern gray squirrel · 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 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.