🧍
Human
Homo sapiens
Primates · Least concern
vs
🦅
Wedge-tailed Eagle
Aquila audax
Birds · Least concern
One clip names both of them
742 views between them.
Human outweighs Wedge-tailed Eagle 18× — 62 kg against 3.4 kg. Both figures are averages across males and females.
Tale of the tape
Body mass
62 kg
🧍 Human · AnAge
3.45 kg
🦅 Wedge-tailed Eagle · AVONET
Top speed
38 km/h
🧍 Human
no figure yet
🦅 Wedge-tailed Eagle
Bite force
843 N
🧍 Human
no figure yet
🦅 Wedge-tailed Eagle
Maximum lifespan
123 yr
🧍 Human · AnAge
40 yr
🦅 Wedge-tailed Eagle · 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.