🦝
Raccoon
Procyon lotor
Carnivores · Least concern
vs
🐗
Wild boar
Sus scrofa
Mammals · Least concern
3 clips name both of them
864 views between them.
Wild boar outweighs Raccoon 27× — 135 kg against 5.1 kg.
Tale of the tape
Body mass
5.08 kg
🦝 Raccoon · COMBINE
135 kg
🐗 Wild boar · COMBINE
Shoulder height
0.3 m
🦝 Raccoon
no figure yet
🐗 Wild boar
Body length
0.6 m
🦝 Raccoon · COMBINE
1.57 m
🐗 Wild boar · COMBINE
Bite force
no figure yet
🦝 Raccoon
3,370 N
🐗 Wild boar
Maximum lifespan
21 yr
🦝 Raccoon · COMBINE
27 yr
🐗 Wild boar · COMBINE
Bars are sized against the larger of the two figures. Bite force figures come from individual studies and vary a lot between sources.
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 Laurasiatheria (superorder), home to 4,193 species.
They last shared an ancestor about 64 million years ago.
Estimates range from 58 to 76 million years; the figure above is the middle estimate.
About this estimate
Dates from Upham, Esselstyn & Jetz 2019, PLoS Biology 17:e3000494 (CC0).