🐒
Ring-tailed lemur
Lemur catta
Primates · Endangered
vs
🦥
Brown-throated sloth
Bradypus variegatus
Mammals · Least concern
5 clips name both of them
21,336 views between them.
Brown-throated sloth outweighs Ring-tailed lemur 1.6× — 4 kg against 2.6 kg.
Tale of the tape
Body mass
2.56 kg
🐒 Ring-tailed lemur · COMBINE
3.96 kg
🦥 Brown-throated sloth · COMBINE
Body length
0.42 m
🐒 Ring-tailed lemur · COMBINE
0.75 m
🦥 Brown-throated sloth · COMBINE
Maximum lifespan
37 yr
🐒 Ring-tailed lemur · COMBINE
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 Theria (subclass), home to 9,319 species.
They last shared an ancestor about 87 million years ago.
Estimates range from 78 to 117 million years; the figure above is the middle estimate.
About this estimate
Dates from Upham, Esselstyn & Jetz 2019, PLoS Biology 17:e3000494 (CC0).