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Human
Homo sapiens
Primates · Least concern
vs
🦩
Common ostrich
Struthio camelus
Birds · Least concern
2 clips name both of them
6 million views between them.
Common ostrich outweighs Human 1.8× — 111 kg against 62 kg. Both figures are averages across males and females.
To scale
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Silhouettes: PhyloPic — Matt Martyniuk (vectorized by T. Michael Keesey) (CC BY-SA); others CC0.
Human
1.70 m
full standing height
Common ostrich
2.75 m
full standing height
Tale of the tape
Body mass
62 kg
🧍 Human · AnAge
111 kg
🦩 Common ostrich · AVONET
Top speed
38 km/h
🧍 Human
no figure yet
🦩 Common ostrich
Bite force
843 N
🧍 Human
no figure yet
🦩 Common ostrich
Maximum lifespan
123 yr
🧍 Human · AnAge
50 yr
🦩 Common ostrich · 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.