🐽
Aardvark
Orycteropus afer
Mammals · Least concern
vs
🐺
Spotted hyena
Crocuta crocuta
Carnivores · Least concern
One clip names both of them
143 views between them.
Level on mass: Aardvark 56.2 kg, Spotted hyena 63 kg.
To scale
Grid at 50 cm
50 cm
1 m
1.5 m
2 m
Silhouettes: PhyloPic (CC0).
Aardvark
0.60 m
at the shoulder
Human
1.70 m
full standing height
for scale
Spotted hyena
0.81 m
at the shoulder
Tale of the tape
Body mass
56 kg
🐽 Aardvark · COMBINE
63 kg
🐺 Spotted hyena · COMBINE
Shoulder height
0.6 m
🐽 Aardvark
0.81 m
🐺 Spotted hyena
Body length
1.42 m
🐽 Aardvark · COMBINE
1.38 m
🐺 Spotted hyena · COMBINE
Top speed
no figure yet
🐽 Aardvark
60 km/h
🐺 Spotted hyena
Bite force
no figure yet
🐽 Aardvark
773 N
🐺 Spotted hyena
Maximum lifespan
30 yr
🐽 Aardvark · COMBINE
41 yr
🐺 Spotted hyena · COMBINE
Bars are sized against the larger of the two figures. Bite force figures come from individual studies and vary a lot between sources.
Animals caught on camera
Real footage of the animals on this site — hunting, fighting, and getting on with it.
Shared ancestry
The closest group they share is Theria (subclass), home to 9,319 species.
They last shared an ancestor about 91 million years ago.
Estimates range from 78 to 117 million years; the figure above is the middle estimate.
About this estimate
Dates from Upham, Esselstyn & Jetz 2019, PLoS Biology 17:e3000494 (CC0).