🧍
Human
Homo sapiens
Primates · Least concern
vs
🐦
Mute Swan
Cygnus olor
Birds · Least concern
2 clips name both of them
141 views between them.
Human outweighs Mute Swan 5.8× — 62 kg against 10.7 kg. Both figures are averages across males and females.
Tale of the tape
Body mass
62 kg
🧍 Human · AnAge
11 kg
🐦 Mute Swan · AVONET
Top speed
38 km/h
🧍 Human
no figure yet
🐦 Mute Swan
Bite force
843 N
🧍 Human
no figure yet
🐦 Mute Swan
Maximum lifespan
123 yr
🧍 Human · AnAge
40 yr
🐦 Mute Swan · 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.