One clip names both of them

17 views between them.

Greylag Goose outweighs Chicken 4.4× — 3.3 kg against 0.8 kg. Both figures are averages across males and females.

Tale of the tape

Body mass

0.75 kg

🐔 Chicken · AVONET

3.3 kg

🪿 Greylag Goose · AVONET

Maximum lifespan

30 yr

🐔 Chicken · AnAge

31 yr

🪿 Greylag Goose · AnAge

Bars are sized against the larger of the two figures.

Dieren voor de camera

Echte beelden van de dieren op deze site — hoe ze jagen, vechten en gewoon hun eigen gang gaan.

Shared ancestry

The closest group they share is Galloanserae (superorder), home to 888 species.

They last shared an ancestor about 79 million years ago.

Estimates range from 72 to 89 million years; the figure above is the middle estimate.

About this estimate

Dates from Jetz, Thomas, Joy, Hartmann & Mooers 2012, Nature 491:444 (CC0).