🐦
Grey Heron
Ardea cinerea
Birds · Least concern
vs
🧍
Human
Homo sapiens
Primates · Least concern
One clip names both of them
11 million views between them.
Human outweighs Grey Heron 43× — 62 kg against 1.4 kg.
Tale of the tape
Body mass
1.44 kg
🐦 Grey Heron · AVONET
62 kg
🧍 Human · AnAge
Top speed
no figure yet
🐦 Grey Heron
38 km/h
🧍 Human
Bite force
no figure yet
🐦 Grey Heron
843 N
🧍 Human
Maximum lifespan
38 yr
🐦 Grey Heron · AnAge
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 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.