🐾
Indian grey mongoose
Urva edwardsii
Carnivores · Least concern
vs
🐒
Ring-tailed lemur
Lemur catta
Primates · Endangered
3 clips name both of them
6,669 views between them.
Tale of the tape
Body mass
no figure yet
🐾 Indian grey mongoose
2.56 kg
🐒 Ring-tailed lemur · COMBINE
Body length
no figure yet
🐾 Indian grey mongoose
0.42 m
🐒 Ring-tailed lemur · COMBINE
Maximum lifespan
no figure yet
🐾 Indian grey mongoose
37 yr
🐒 Ring-tailed lemur · COMBINE
Bars are sized against the larger of the two figures.
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).