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Ring-tailed lemur
Lemur catta
Primates · Endangered
vs
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Leatherback turtle
Dermochelys coriacea
Reptiles · Vulnerable
2 clips name both of them
2.3 million views between them.
Leatherback turtle outweighs Ring-tailed lemur 160× — 420 kg against 2.6 kg.
Tale of the tape
Body mass
2.56 kg
🐒 Ring-tailed lemur · COMBINE
420 kg
🐢 Leatherback turtle · AnAge
Body length
0.42 m
🐒 Ring-tailed lemur · COMBINE
no figure yet
🐢 Leatherback turtle
Maximum lifespan
37 yr
🐒 Ring-tailed lemur · COMBINE
30 yr
🐢 Leatherback turtle · AnAge
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.