🧍
Human
Homo sapiens
Primates · Least concern
vs
🐾
Rock hyrax
Procavia capensis
Mammals · Least concern
3 clips name both of them
3.2 million views between them.
Human outweighs Rock hyrax 23× — 62 kg against 2.8 kg.
Tale of the tape
Body mass
62 kg
🧍 Human · AnAge
2.75 kg
🐾 Rock hyrax · COMBINE
Body length
no figure yet
🧍 Human
0.51 m
🐾 Rock hyrax · COMBINE
Top speed
38 km/h
🧍 Human
no figure yet
🐾 Rock hyrax
Bite force
843 N
🧍 Human
no figure yet
🐾 Rock hyrax
Maximum lifespan
123 yr
🧍 Human · AnAge
15 yr
🐾 Rock hyrax · 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.
We know what their shared ancestor was, but not when it lived — no dated family tree spans both of them yet.