🦡
North American river otter
Lontra canadensis
Carnivores · Least concern
vs
🐍
Snakes
Serpentes
Reptiles
average across the group
One clip names both of them
5 views between them.
Snakes outweigh North American river otter 9.6× — 77.5 kg against 8.1 kg.
Tale of the tape
Body mass
8.09 kg
🦡 North American river otter · COMBINE
77 kg
🐍 Snakes · group average
Body length
0.72 m
🦡 North American river otter · COMBINE
3.9 m
🐍 Snakes · group average
Maximum lifespan
27 yr
🦡 North American river otter · COMBINE
27 yr
🐍 Snakes · group average
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 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.