🐍
Black mamba
Dendroaspis polylepis
Reptiles · Least concern
vs
🧍
Human
Homo sapiens
Primates · Least concern
One clip names both of them
101,489 views between them.
Human outweighs Black mamba 2.0× — 62 kg against 30.8 kg.
Tale of the tape
Body mass
31 kg
🐍 Black mamba · AnAge
62 kg
🧍 Human · AnAge
Body length
4.25 m
🐍 Black mamba · ReptTraits
no figure yet
🧍 Human
Top speed
no figure yet
🐍 Black mamba
38 km/h
🧍 Human
Bite force
no figure yet
🐍 Black mamba
843 N
🧍 Human
Maximum lifespan
26 yr
🐍 Black mamba · AnAge
123 yr
🧍 Human · AnAge
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 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.