🦡
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.
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 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.