🐊
Nile crocodile
Crocodylus niloticus
Reptiles · Least concern
vs
🐺
Spotted hyena
Crocuta crocuta
Carnivores · Least concern
One clip names both of them
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Nile crocodile outweighs Spotted hyena 1.5× — 94.2 kg against 63 kg.
Tale of the tape
Body mass
94 kg
🐊 Nile crocodile · AnAge
63 kg
🐺 Spotted hyena · COMBINE
Shoulder height
no figure yet
🐊 Nile crocodile
0.81 m
🐺 Spotted hyena
Body length
5 m
🐊 Nile crocodile · ReptTraits
1.38 m
🐺 Spotted hyena · COMBINE
Top speed
9.86 km/h
🐊 Nile crocodile
60 km/h
🐺 Spotted hyena
Bite force
3,043 N
🐊 Nile crocodile
773 N
🐺 Spotted hyena
Maximum lifespan
56 yr
🐊 Nile crocodile · AnAge
41 yr
🐺 Spotted hyena · COMBINE
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.