🐾
European hedgehog
Erinaceus europaeus
Mammals · Near threatened
vs
🧍
Human
Homo sapiens
Primates · Least concern
2 clips name both of them
3,486 views between them.
Human outweighs European hedgehog 80× — 62 kg against 0.8 kg.
Tale of the tape
Body mass
0.78 kg
🐾 European hedgehog · COMBINE
62 kg
🧍 Human · AnAge
Body length
0.27 m
🐾 European hedgehog · COMBINE
no figure yet
🧍 Human
Top speed
no figure yet
🐾 European hedgehog
38 km/h
🧍 Human
Bite force
no figure yet
🐾 European hedgehog
843 N
🧍 Human
Maximum lifespan
14 yr
🐾 European hedgehog · 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 Theria (subclass), home to 9,319 species.
They last shared an ancestor about 81 million years ago.
Estimates range from 74 to 89 million years; the figure above is the middle estimate.
About this estimate
Dates from Upham, Esselstyn & Jetz 2019, PLoS Biology 17:e3000494 (CC0).