🦩
Greater Flamingo
Phoenicopterus roseus
Birds · Least concern
vs
🦁
Lion
Panthera leo
Carnivores · Vulnerable
One clip names both of them
427 views between them.
Lion outweighs Greater Flamingo 49× — 149 kg against 3 kg. Both figures are averages across males and females.
Tale of the tape
Body mass
3.03 kg
🦩 Greater Flamingo · AVONET
149 kg
🦁 Lion · COMBINE
Shoulder height
no figure yet
🦩 Greater Flamingo
1.15 m
🦁 Lion
Body length
no figure yet
🦩 Greater Flamingo
2.17 m
🦁 Lion · COMBINE
Top speed
no figure yet
🦩 Greater Flamingo
55 km/h
🦁 Lion
Bite force
no figure yet
🦩 Greater Flamingo
1,768 N
🦁 Lion
Maximum lifespan
59 yr
🦩 Greater Flamingo · AnAge
30 yr
🦁 Lion · COMBINE
Bars are sized against the larger of the two figures. Bite force figures come from individual studies and vary a lot between sources.
Kamerára vett állatok
Igazi felvételek az oldal állatairól — ahogy vadásznak, ahogy harcolnak, és ahogy egyszerűen csak élnek.
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.