🧍
Human
Homo sapiens
Primates · Least concern
vs
🦏
White rhinoceros
Ceratotherium simum
Mammals · Near threatened
4 clips name both of them
4 million views between them.
White rhinoceros outweighs Human 36× — 2,230 kg against 62 kg.
To scale
Grid at 50 cm
50 cm
1 m
1.5 m
2 m
Silhouettes: PhyloPic (CC0).
Human
1.70 m
full standing height
White rhinoceros
1.78 m
at the shoulder
Tale of the tape
Body mass
62 kg
🧍 Human · AnAge
2,230 kg
🦏 White rhinoceros · COMBINE
Shoulder height
no figure yet
🧍 Human
1.78 m
🦏 White rhinoceros
Body length
no figure yet
🧍 Human
3.39 m
🦏 White rhinoceros · COMBINE
Top speed
38 km/h
🧍 Human
24 km/h
🦏 White rhinoceros
Bite force
843 N
🧍 Human
no figure yet
🦏 White rhinoceros
Maximum lifespan
123 yr
🧍 Human · AnAge
50 yr
🦏 White rhinoceros · COMBINE
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).