🐦
Black-headed Gull
Chroicocephalus ridibundus
Birds · Least concern
vs
🐿️
Eastern gray squirrel
Sciurus carolinensis
Mammals · Least concern
One clip names both of them
81 million views between them.
Eastern gray squirrel outweighs Black-headed Gull 1.8× — 0.5 kg against 0.3 kg. Both figures are averages across males and females.
Tale of the tape
Body mass
0.31 kg
🐦 Black-headed Gull · AnAge
0.54 kg
🐿️ Eastern gray squirrel · COMBINE
Body length
no figure yet
🐦 Black-headed Gull
0.32 m
🐿️ Eastern gray squirrel · COMBINE
Maximum lifespan
33 yr
🐦 Black-headed Gull · 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.