🐭
House mouse
Mus musculus
Mammals · Least concern
vs
🐒
Ring-tailed lemur
Lemur catta
Primates · Endangered
2 clips name both of them
171,260 views between them.
Ring-tailed lemur outweighs House mouse 120× — 2.6 kg against 0 kg.
Tale of the tape
Body mass
0.02 kg
🐭 House mouse · COMBINE
2.56 kg
🐒 Ring-tailed lemur · COMBINE
Body length
0.1 m
🐭 House mouse · COMBINE
0.42 m
🐒 Ring-tailed lemur · COMBINE
Maximum lifespan
6 yr
🐭 House mouse · COMBINE
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 Euarchontoglires (superorder), home to 4,379 species.
They last shared an ancestor about 76 million years ago.
Estimates range from 67 to 85 million years; the figure above is the middle estimate.
About this estimate
Dates from Upham, Esselstyn & Jetz 2019, PLoS Biology 17:e3000494 (CC0).