🐦
Western Barn Owl
Tyto alba
Birds · Least concern
vs
🐿️
Eastern gray squirrel
Sciurus carolinensis
Mammals · Least concern
One clip names both of them
119,970 views between them.
Eastern gray squirrel outweighs Western Barn Owl 1.3× — 0.5 kg against 0.4 kg.
Tale of the tape
Body mass
0.4 kg
🐦 Western Barn Owl · AVONET
0.54 kg
🐿️ Eastern gray squirrel · COMBINE
Body length
no figure yet
🐦 Western Barn Owl
0.32 m
🐿️ Eastern gray squirrel · COMBINE
Maximum lifespan
34 yr
🐦 Western Barn Owl · AnAge
24 yr
🐿️ Eastern gray squirrel · 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.