🧍
Human
Homo sapiens
Primates · Least concern
vs
🦉
Tawny owl
Strix aluco
Birds · Least concern
One clip names both of them
1,455 views between them.
Human outweighs Tawny owl 130× — 62 kg against 0.5 kg. Both figures are averages across males and females.
Tale of the tape
Body mass
62 kg
🧍 Human · AnAge
0.47 kg
🦉 Tawny owl · AVONET
Top speed
38 km/h
🧍 Human
no figure yet
🦉 Tawny owl
Bite force
843 N
🧍 Human
no figure yet
🦉 Tawny owl
Maximum lifespan
123 yr
🧍 Human · AnAge
22 yr
🦉 Tawny owl · 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.