🐦
Western Barn Owl
Tyto alba
Birds · Least concern
vs
🦝
Raccoon
Procyon lotor
Carnivores · Least concern
2 clips name both of them
441 views between them.
Raccoon outweighs Western Barn Owl 13× — 5.1 kg against 0.4 kg.
Tale of the tape
Body mass
0.4 kg
🐦 Western Barn Owl · AVONET
5.08 kg
🦝 Raccoon · COMBINE
Shoulder height
no figure yet
🐦 Western Barn Owl
0.3 m
🦝 Raccoon
Body length
no figure yet
🐦 Western Barn Owl
0.6 m
🦝 Raccoon · COMBINE
Maximum lifespan
34 yr
🐦 Western Barn Owl · AnAge
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 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.