🐦
Western Barn Owl
Tyto alba
Birds · Least concern
vs
🦥
Brown-throated sloth
Bradypus variegatus
Mammals · Least concern
2 clips name both of them
28 views between them.
Brown-throated sloth outweighs Western Barn Owl 9.8× — 4 kg against 0.4 kg.
Tale of the tape
Body mass
0.4 kg
🐦 Western Barn Owl · AVONET
3.96 kg
🦥 Brown-throated sloth · COMBINE
Body length
no figure yet
🐦 Western Barn Owl
0.75 m
🦥 Brown-throated sloth · COMBINE
Maximum lifespan
34 yr
🐦 Western Barn Owl · AnAge
27 yr
🦥 Brown-throated sloth · COMBINE · estimated
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.