🐊
Nile crocodile
Crocodylus niloticus
Reptiles · Least concern
vs
🦩
Roseate Spoonbill
Platalea ajaja
Birds · Least concern
One clip names both of them
112 views between them.
Nile crocodile outweighs Roseate Spoonbill 63× — 94.2 kg against 1.5 kg.
Tale of the tape
Body mass
94 kg
🐊 Nile crocodile · AnAge
1.49 kg
🦩 Roseate Spoonbill · AVONET
Body length
5 m
🐊 Nile crocodile · ReptTraits
no figure yet
🦩 Roseate Spoonbill
Top speed
9.86 km/h
🐊 Nile crocodile
no figure yet
🦩 Roseate Spoonbill
Bite force
3,043 N
🐊 Nile crocodile
no figure yet
🦩 Roseate Spoonbill
Maximum lifespan
56 yr
🐊 Nile crocodile · AnAge
28 yr
🦩 Roseate Spoonbill · 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.