🐊
Nile crocodile
Crocodylus niloticus
Reptiles · Least concern
vs
🐆
Leopard
Panthera pardus
Carnivores · Vulnerable
5 clips name both of them
1.6 million views between them.
Nile crocodile outweighs Leopard 1.8× — 94.2 kg against 53.1 kg.
Tale of the tape
Body mass
94 kg
🐊 Nile crocodile · AnAge
53 kg
🐆 Leopard · COMBINE
Shoulder height
no figure yet
🐊 Nile crocodile
0.72 m
🐆 Leopard
Body length
5 m
🐊 Nile crocodile · ReptTraits
1.64 m
🐆 Leopard · COMBINE
Top speed
9.86 km/h
🐊 Nile crocodile
58 km/h
🐆 Leopard
Bite force
3,043 N
🐊 Nile crocodile
467 N
🐆 Leopard
Maximum lifespan
56 yr
🐊 Nile crocodile · AnAge
27 yr
🐆 Leopard · 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.