🧍
Human
Homo sapiens
Primates · Least concern
vs
🐒
Ring-tailed lemur
Lemur catta
Primates · Endangered
4 clips name both of them
2,398 views between them.
Human outweighs Ring-tailed lemur 24× — 62 kg against 2.6 kg.
Tale of the tape
Body mass
62 kg
🧍 Human · AnAge
2.56 kg
🐒 Ring-tailed lemur · COMBINE
Body length
no figure yet
🧍 Human
0.42 m
🐒 Ring-tailed lemur · COMBINE
Top speed
38 km/h
🧍 Human
no figure yet
🐒 Ring-tailed lemur
Bite force
843 N
🧍 Human
no figure yet
🐒 Ring-tailed lemur
Maximum lifespan
123 yr
🧍 Human · AnAge
37 yr
🐒 Ring-tailed lemur · 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 Euarchontoglires (superorder), home to 4,379 species.
They last shared an ancestor about 67 million years ago.
Estimates range from 56 to 74 million years; the figure above is the middle estimate.
About this estimate
Dates from Upham, Esselstyn & Jetz 2019, PLoS Biology 17:e3000494 (CC0).