🐍
Black mamba
Dendroaspis polylepis
Reptiles · Least concern
vs
🦁
Lion
Panthera leo
Carnivores · Vulnerable
One clip names both of them
887 views between them.
Lion outweighs Black mamba 4.8× — 149 kg against 30.8 kg. Both figures are averages across males and females.
Tale of the tape
Body mass
31 kg
🐍 Black mamba · AnAge
149 kg
🦁 Lion · COMBINE
Shoulder height
no figure yet
🐍 Black mamba
1.15 m
🦁 Lion
Body length
4.25 m
🐍 Black mamba · ReptTraits
2.17 m
🦁 Lion · COMBINE
Top speed
no figure yet
🐍 Black mamba
55 km/h
🦁 Lion
Bite force
no figure yet
🐍 Black mamba
1,768 N
🦁 Lion
Maximum lifespan
26 yr
🐍 Black mamba · AnAge
30 yr
🦁 Lion · COMBINE
Bars are sized against the larger of the two figures. Bite force figures come from individual studies and vary a lot between sources.
حيوانات أمام الكاميرا
مقاطع حقيقية لحيوانات هذا الموقع — تصطاد، وتتقاتل، وتمضي في حياتها.
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.