🦩
Greater Flamingo
Phoenicopterus roseus
Birds · Least concern
vs
🦁
Lion
Panthera leo
Carnivores · Vulnerable
One clip names both of them
427 views between them.
Lion outweighs Greater Flamingo 49× — 149 kg against 3 kg. Both figures are averages across males and females.
Tale of the tape
Body mass
3.03 kg
🦩 Greater Flamingo · AVONET
149 kg
🦁 Lion · COMBINE
Shoulder height
no figure yet
🦩 Greater Flamingo
1.15 m
🦁 Lion
Body length
no figure yet
🦩 Greater Flamingo
2.17 m
🦁 Lion · COMBINE
Top speed
no figure yet
🦩 Greater Flamingo
55 km/h
🦁 Lion
Bite force
no figure yet
🦩 Greater Flamingo
1,768 N
🦁 Lion
Maximum lifespan
59 yr
🦩 Greater Flamingo · 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.
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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.