2 clips name both of them

417,054 views between them.

Eurasian otter outweighs Raccoon 1.5× — 7.8 kg against 5.1 kg.

Tale of the tape

Body mass

7.81 kg

🦦 Eurasian otter · COMBINE

5.08 kg

🦝 Raccoon · COMBINE

Shoulder height

no figure yet

🦦 Eurasian otter

0.3 m

🦝 Raccoon

Body length

0.75 m

🦦 Eurasian otter · COMBINE

0.6 m

🦝 Raccoon · COMBINE

Maximum lifespan

22 yr

🦦 Eurasian otter · COMBINE

21 yr

🦝 Raccoon · 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 Caniformia (suborder), home to 469 species.

They last shared an ancestor about 21 million years ago.

Estimates range from 18 to 24 million years; the figure above is the middle estimate.

About this estimate

Dates from Upham, Esselstyn & Jetz 2019, PLoS Biology 17:e3000494 (CC0).