🦅
Golden eagle
Aquila chrysaetos
Birds · Least concern
vs
🦛
Hippopotamus
Hippopotamus amphibius
Mammals · Vulnerable
One clip names both of them
2,246 views between them.
Hippopotamus outweighs Golden eagle 620× — 2,640 kg against 4.2 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).
Golden eagle
0.61 m
full standing height · measured standing
Human
1.70 m
full standing height
for scale
Hippopotamus
1.47 m
at the shoulder
Tale of the tape
Body mass
4.25 kg
🦅 Golden eagle · AVONET
2,640 kg
🦛 Hippopotamus · COMBINE
Shoulder height
no figure yet
🦅 Golden eagle
1.47 m
🦛 Hippopotamus
Body length
no figure yet
🦅 Golden eagle
5.05 m
🦛 Hippopotamus · COMBINE
Top speed
no figure yet
🦅 Golden eagle
24 km/h
🦛 Hippopotamus
Maximum lifespan
48 yr
🦅 Golden eagle · AnAge
61 yr
🦛 Hippopotamus · COMBINE
Bars are sized against the larger of the two figures.
Les animaux pris sur le vif
De vraies images des animaux de ce site — à la chasse, au combat, ou vaquant simplement à leurs occupations.
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.