一次关于动物与数字的有趣实验
Animal vs Animal 把最精彩的真实动物视频，和每种动物究竟有多大、多快、多稀有配在一起，还提供任选两种动物对比的工具。
The premise is deliberately silly. The purpose is not: curiosity about which animal would win is the shortest route to caring whether it still exists.
Daniel
Daniel built and runs Animal vs Animal. His day job is data storytelling at Datastory — turning public data into things people actually want to look at — and this site is what happens when that instinct meets a lifelong argument about whether a honey badger could take a lion.
Spotted a wrong number or the wrong animal? Tell Daniel — it gets fixed.
The charts here were made with Datastory, a tool for turning data into charts and stories without writing code. datastory.tech →
Credits
Animal descriptions are adapted from Wikipedia (CC BY-SA). Measurements come from open scientific databases — COMBINE, AVONET, AnAge, ReptTraits, AmphiBIO and FishBase — with taxonomy from GBIF, the family tree from the Open Tree of Life and conservation status from the IUCN Red List. Photos are by the photographers named on each picture, under Creative Commons licences.
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This site exists to get people curious about animals — and curiosity is the first step to caring whether they survive. Many of the animals here are in trouble. If that bothers you too, these organisations do the real work: