🐊
Nile crocodile
Crocodylus niloticus
Reptiles · Least concern
vs
🐦
Grey Heron
Ardea cinerea
Birds · Least concern
3 clips name both of them
7,400 views between them.
Nile crocodile outweighs Grey Heron 65× — 94.2 kg against 1.4 kg.
Tale of the tape
Body mass
94 kg
🐊 Nile crocodile · AnAge
1.44 kg
🐦 Grey Heron · AVONET
Body length
5 m
🐊 Nile crocodile · ReptTraits
no figure yet
🐦 Grey Heron
Top speed
9.86 km/h
🐊 Nile crocodile
no figure yet
🐦 Grey Heron
Bite force
3,043 N
🐊 Nile crocodile
no figure yet
🐦 Grey Heron
Maximum lifespan
56 yr
🐊 Nile crocodile · AnAge
38 yr
🐦 Grey Heron · 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 Sauria (order), home to 32,042 species.
We know what their shared ancestor was, but not when it lived — no dated family tree spans both of them yet.