🐊
Nile crocodile
Crocodylus niloticus
Reptiles · Least concern
vs
🦦
Eurasian otter
Lutra lutra
Carnivores · Near threatened
4 clips name both of them
1.4 million views between them.
Nile crocodile outweighs Eurasian otter 12× — 94.2 kg against 7.8 kg.
Tale of the tape
Body mass
94 kg
🐊 Nile crocodile · AnAge
7.81 kg
🦦 Eurasian otter · COMBINE
Body length
5 m
🐊 Nile crocodile · ReptTraits
0.75 m
🦦 Eurasian otter · COMBINE
Top speed
9.86 km/h
🐊 Nile crocodile
no figure yet
🦦 Eurasian otter
Bite force
3,043 N
🐊 Nile crocodile
no figure yet
🦦 Eurasian otter
Maximum lifespan
56 yr
🐊 Nile crocodile · AnAge
22 yr
🦦 Eurasian otter · 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.