🐆
Cheetah
Acinonyx jubatus
Carnivores · Vulnerable
vs
🦡
Honey badger
Mellivora capensis
Carnivores · Least concern
One clip names both of them
34,275 views between them.
Cheetah outweighs Honey badger 5.1× — 50.6 kg against 10 kg. Both figures are averages across males and females.
To scale
Grid at 50 cm
50 cm
1 m
1.5 m
2 m
Silhouettes: PhyloPic (CC0).
Cheetah
0.80 m
at the shoulder
Human
1.70 m
full standing height
for scale
Honey badger
0.26 m
at the shoulder
Tale of the tape
Body mass
51 kg
🐆 Cheetah · COMBINE
10 kg
🦡 Honey badger · COMBINE
Shoulder height
0.8 m
🐆 Cheetah
0.26 m
🦡 Honey badger
Body length
1.49 m
🐆 Cheetah · COMBINE
0.73 m
🦡 Honey badger · COMBINE
Top speed
104 km/h
🐆 Cheetah
no figure yet
🦡 Honey badger
Bite force
472 N
🐆 Cheetah
no figure yet
🦡 Honey badger
Maximum lifespan
20 yr
🐆 Cheetah · COMBINE
31 yr
🦡 Honey badger · COMBINE
Bars are sized against the larger of the two figures. Bite force figures come from individual studies and vary a lot between sources.
Animales captados por la cámara
Imágenes reales de los animales de este sitio: cazando, peleando y haciendo su vida.
Shared ancestry
The closest group they share is Carnivora (order), home to 728 species.
They last shared an ancestor about 39 million years ago.
Estimates range from 32 to 45 million years; the figure above is the middle estimate.
About this estimate
Dates from Upham, Esselstyn & Jetz 2019, PLoS Biology 17:e3000494 (CC0).