🐒
Olive baboon
Papio anubis
Primates · Least concern
vs
🐺
Spotted hyena
Crocuta crocuta
Carnivores · Least concern
2 clips name both of them
17 million views between them.
Spotted hyena outweighs Olive baboon 3.6× — 63 kg against 17.7 kg.
Tale of the tape
Body mass
18 kg
🐒 Olive baboon · COMBINE
63 kg
🐺 Spotted hyena · COMBINE
Shoulder height
no figure yet
🐒 Olive baboon
0.81 m
🐺 Spotted hyena
Body length
0.76 m
🐒 Olive baboon · COMBINE
1.38 m
🐺 Spotted hyena · COMBINE
Top speed
no figure yet
🐒 Olive baboon
60 km/h
🐺 Spotted hyena
Bite force
no figure yet
🐒 Olive baboon
773 N
🐺 Spotted hyena
Maximum lifespan
45 yr
🐒 Olive baboon · 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 81 million years ago.
Estimates range from 74 to 89 million years; the figure above is the middle estimate.
About this estimate
Dates from Upham, Esselstyn & Jetz 2019, PLoS Biology 17:e3000494 (CC0).