🐎
Horse
Equus ferus caballus
Mammals
vs
🦥
Brown-throated sloth
Bradypus variegatus
Mammals · Least concern
One clip names both of them
5,511 views between them.
Horse outweighs Brown-throated sloth 76× — 300 kg against 4 kg.
Tale of the tape
Body mass
300 kg
🐎 Horse · AnAge
3.96 kg
🦥 Brown-throated sloth · COMBINE
Shoulder height
1.61 m
🐎 Horse
no figure yet
🦥 Brown-throated sloth
Body length
no figure yet
🐎 Horse
0.75 m
🦥 Brown-throated sloth · COMBINE
Top speed
64 km/h
🐎 Horse
no figure yet
🦥 Brown-throated sloth
Maximum lifespan
57 yr
🐎 Horse · AnAge
27 yr
🦥 Brown-throated sloth · COMBINE · estimated
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 87 million years ago.
Estimates range from 78 to 117 million years; the figure above is the middle estimate.
About this estimate
Dates from Upham, Esselstyn & Jetz 2019, PLoS Biology 17:e3000494 (CC0).