🐊
Nile crocodile
Crocodylus niloticus
Reptiles · Least concern
vs
🐆
Jaguar
Panthera onca
Carnivores · Near threatened
One clip names both of them
70 views between them.
Nile crocodile outweighs Jaguar 1.2× — 94.2 kg against 81.2 kg.
Tale of the tape
Body mass
94 kg
🐊 Nile crocodile · AnAge
81 kg
🐆 Jaguar · COMBINE
Shoulder height
no figure yet
🐊 Nile crocodile
0.71 m
🐆 Jaguar
Body length
5 m
🐊 Nile crocodile · ReptTraits
1.59 m
🐆 Jaguar · COMBINE
Top speed
9.86 km/h
🐊 Nile crocodile
no figure yet
🐆 Jaguar
Bite force
3,043 N
🐊 Nile crocodile
1,014 N
🐆 Jaguar
Maximum lifespan
56 yr
🐊 Nile crocodile · AnAge
28 yr
🐆 Jaguar · 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.