🦡
Honey badger
Mellivora capensis
Carnivores · Least concern
vs
🐆
Big cats
Pantherinae
Mammals
average across the group
6 clips name both of them
8.4 million views between them.
Big cats outweigh Honey badger 9.2× — 92 kg against 10 kg.
To scale
Grid at 50 cm
50 cm
1 m
1.5 m
2 m
Silhouettes: PhyloPic (CC0).
Honey badger
0.26 m
at the shoulder
Human
1.70 m
full standing height
for scale
Big cats
0.82 m
at the shoulder
Tale of the tape
Body mass
10 kg
🦡 Honey badger · COMBINE
92 kg
🐆 Big cats · group average
Shoulder height
0.26 m
🦡 Honey badger
0.82 m
🐆 Big cats · group average
Body length
0.73 m
🦡 Honey badger · COMBINE
1.79 m
🐆 Big cats · group average
Top speed
no figure yet
🦡 Honey badger
56 km/h
🐆 Big cats · group average
Bite force
no figure yet
🦡 Honey badger
1,194 N
🐆 Big cats · group average
Maximum lifespan
31 yr
🦡 Honey badger · COMBINE
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 Carnivora (order), home to 728 species.
We know what their shared ancestor was, but not when it lived — no dated family tree spans both of them yet.