🧍
Human
Homo sapiens
Primates · Least concern
vs
🐗
Wild boar
Sus scrofa
Mammals · Least concern
One clip names both of them
108 views between them.
Wild boar outweighs Human 2.2× — 135 kg against 62 kg.
Tale of the tape
Body mass
62 kg
🧍 Human · AnAge
135 kg
🐗 Wild boar · COMBINE
Body length
no figure yet
🧍 Human
1.57 m
🐗 Wild boar · COMBINE
Top speed
38 km/h
🧍 Human
no figure yet
🐗 Wild boar
Bite force
843 N
🧍 Human
3,370 N
🐗 Wild boar
Maximum lifespan
123 yr
🧍 Human · AnAge
27 yr
🐗 Wild boar · 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.
They last shared an ancestor about 81 million years ago.
Estimates range from 74 to 89 million years; the figure above is the middle estimate.
About this estimate
Dates from Upham, Esselstyn & Jetz 2019, PLoS Biology 17:e3000494 (CC0).