🐆
Cheetah
Acinonyx jubatus
Carnivores · Vulnerable
vs
🐊
Nile crocodile
Crocodylus niloticus
Reptiles · Least concern
5 clips name both of them
12 million views between them.
Nile crocodile outweighs Cheetah 1.9× — 94.2 kg against 50.6 kg. Both figures are averages across males and females.
Tale of the tape
Body mass
51 kg
🐆 Cheetah · COMBINE
94 kg
🐊 Nile crocodile · AnAge
Shoulder height
0.8 m
🐆 Cheetah
no figure yet
🐊 Nile crocodile
Body length
1.49 m
🐆 Cheetah · COMBINE
5 m
🐊 Nile crocodile · ReptTraits
Top speed
104 km/h
🐆 Cheetah
9.86 km/h
🐊 Nile crocodile
Bite force
472 N
🐆 Cheetah
3,043 N
🐊 Nile crocodile
Maximum lifespan
20 yr
🐆 Cheetah · 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.