🐦
Western Barn Owl
Tyto alba
Birds · Least concern
vs
🐍
Snakes
Serpentes
Reptiles
average across the group
One clip names both of them
557,896 views between them.
Snakes outweigh Western Barn Owl 190× — 77.5 kg against 0.4 kg.
Tale of the tape
Body mass
0.4 kg
🐦 Western Barn Owl · AVONET
77 kg
🐍 Snakes · group average
Body length
no figure yet
🐦 Western Barn Owl
3.9 m
🐍 Snakes · group average
Maximum lifespan
34 yr
🐦 Western Barn Owl · AnAge
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 Sauria (order), home to 32,042 species.
We know what their shared ancestor was, but not when it lived — no dated family tree spans both of them yet.