🐒
Olive baboon
Papio anubis
Primates · Least concern
vs
🦁
Lion
Panthera leo
Carnivores · Vulnerable
14 clips name both of them
8.4 million views between them.
Lion outweighs Olive baboon 8.4× — 149 kg against 17.7 kg. Both figures are averages across males and females.
Tale of the tape
Body mass
18 kg
🐒 Olive baboon · COMBINE
149 kg
🦁 Lion · COMBINE
Shoulder height
no figure yet
🐒 Olive baboon
1.15 m
🦁 Lion
Body length
0.76 m
🐒 Olive baboon · COMBINE
2.17 m
🦁 Lion · COMBINE
Top speed
no figure yet
🐒 Olive baboon
55 km/h
🦁 Lion
Bite force
no figure yet
🐒 Olive baboon
1,768 N
🦁 Lion
Maximum lifespan
45 yr
🐒 Olive baboon · COMBINE
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.
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).