🦁
Lion
Panthera leo
Carnivores · Vulnerable
vs
🐦
Griffon Vulture
Gyps fulvus
Birds · Least concern
4 clips name both of them
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Lion outweighs Griffon Vulture 20× — 149 kg against 7.4 kg. Both figures are averages across males and females.
Tale of the tape
Body mass
149 kg
🦁 Lion · COMBINE
7.44 kg
🐦 Griffon Vulture · AVONET
Shoulder height
1.15 m
🦁 Lion
no figure yet
🐦 Griffon Vulture
Body length
2.17 m
🦁 Lion · COMBINE
no figure yet
🐦 Griffon Vulture
Top speed
55 km/h
🦁 Lion
no figure yet
🐦 Griffon Vulture
Bite force
1,768 N
🦁 Lion
no figure yet
🐦 Griffon Vulture
Maximum lifespan
30 yr
🦁 Lion · COMBINE
41 yr
🐦 Griffon Vulture · AnAge
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.