🐹
Capybara
Hydrochoerus hydrochaeris
Mammals · Least concern
vs
🐊
Nile crocodile
Crocodylus niloticus
Reptiles · Least concern
6 clips name both of them
108 million views between them.
Nile crocodile outweighs Capybara 1.8× — 94.2 kg against 51.6 kg.
Tale of the tape
Body mass
52 kg
🐹 Capybara · COMBINE
94 kg
🐊 Nile crocodile · AnAge
Shoulder height
0.57 m
🐹 Capybara
no figure yet
🐊 Nile crocodile
Body length
1.25 m
🐹 Capybara · COMBINE
5 m
🐊 Nile crocodile · ReptTraits
Top speed
no figure yet
🐹 Capybara
9.86 km/h
🐊 Nile crocodile
Bite force
no figure yet
🐹 Capybara
3,043 N
🐊 Nile crocodile
Maximum lifespan
15 yr
🐹 Capybara · COMBINE
56 yr
🐊 Nile crocodile · 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.