🐎
Horse
Equus ferus caballus
Mammals
vs
🐭
Muskrat
Ondatra zibethicus
Mammals · Least concern
One clip names both of them
1,303 views between them.
Horse outweighs Muskrat 300× — 300 kg against 1 kg.
Tale of the tape
Body mass
300 kg
🐎 Horse · AnAge
1 kg
🐭 Muskrat · COMBINE
Shoulder height
1.61 m
🐎 Horse
no figure yet
🐭 Muskrat
Body length
no figure yet
🐎 Horse
0.3 m
🐭 Muskrat · COMBINE
Top speed
64 km/h
🐎 Horse
no figure yet
🐭 Muskrat
Maximum lifespan
57 yr
🐎 Horse · AnAge
9.99 yr
🐭 Muskrat · 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 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).