🧍
Human
Homo sapiens
Primates · Least concern
vs
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Brown-throated sloth
Bradypus variegatus
Mammals · Least concern
5 clips name both of them
14 million views between them.
Human outweighs Brown-throated sloth 16× — 62 kg against 4 kg.
Tale of the tape
Body mass
62 kg
🧍 Human · AnAge
3.96 kg
🦥 Brown-throated sloth · COMBINE
Body length
no figure yet
🧍 Human
0.75 m
🦥 Brown-throated sloth · COMBINE
Top speed
38 km/h
🧍 Human
no figure yet
🦥 Brown-throated sloth
Bite force
843 N
🧍 Human
no figure yet
🦥 Brown-throated sloth
Maximum lifespan
123 yr
🧍 Human · AnAge
27 yr
🦥 Brown-throated sloth · COMBINE · estimated
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 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).