🐍
Black mamba
Dendroaspis polylepis
Reptiles · Least concern
vs
🐆
Big cats
Pantherinae
Mammals
average across the group
One clip names both of them
887 views between them.
Big cats outweigh Black mamba 3.0× — 92 kg against 30.8 kg.
Tale of the tape
Body mass
31 kg
🐍 Black mamba · AnAge
92 kg
🐆 Big cats · group average
Shoulder height
no figure yet
🐍 Black mamba
0.82 m
🐆 Big cats · group average
Body length
4.25 m
🐍 Black mamba · ReptTraits
1.79 m
🐆 Big cats · group average
Top speed
no figure yet
🐍 Black mamba
56 km/h
🐆 Big cats · group average
Bite force
no figure yet
🐍 Black mamba
1,194 N
🐆 Big cats · group average
Maximum lifespan
26 yr
🐍 Black mamba · AnAge
27 yr
🐆 Big cats · group average
Bars are sized against the larger of the two figures. Bite force figures come from individual studies and vary a lot between sources.
حیوانات در قاب دوربین
فیلم واقعی از حیوانات این سایت — در حال شکار، درگیری و گذران زندگی روزمره.
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.