🦈
Bull shark
Carcharhinus leucas
Sharks & rays · Vulnerable
vs
🦛
Hippopotamus
Hippopotamus amphibius
Mammals · Vulnerable
One clip names both of them
442,489 views between them.
Hippopotamus outweighs Bull shark 15× — 2,640 kg against 174 kg.
Tale of the tape
Body mass
174 kg
🦈 Bull shark · AnAge
2,640 kg
🦛 Hippopotamus · COMBINE
Shoulder height
no figure yet
🦈 Bull shark
1.47 m
🦛 Hippopotamus
Body length
2.6 m
🦈 Bull shark · FishBase
5.05 m
🦛 Hippopotamus · COMBINE
Top speed
no figure yet
🦈 Bull shark
24 km/h
🦛 Hippopotamus
Maximum lifespan
32 yr
🦈 Bull shark · AnAge
61 yr
🦛 Hippopotamus · COMBINE
Bars are sized against the larger of the two figures.
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 Gnathostomata (superclass), home to 90,802 species.
We know what their shared ancestor was, but not when it lived — no dated family tree spans both of them yet.