🐊
Nile crocodile
Crocodylus niloticus
Reptiles · Least concern
vs
🐅
Tiger
Panthera tigris
Carnivores · Endangered
One clip names both of them
208,011 views between them.
Tiger outweighs Nile crocodile 1.4× — 129 kg against 94.2 kg. Both figures are averages across males and females.
Tale of the tape
Body mass
94 kg
🐊 Nile crocodile · AnAge
129 kg
🐅 Tiger · COMBINE
Shoulder height
no figure yet
🐊 Nile crocodile
0.91 m
🐅 Tiger
Body length
5 m
🐊 Nile crocodile · ReptTraits
2.31 m
🐅 Tiger · COMBINE
Top speed
9.86 km/h
🐊 Nile crocodile
54 km/h
🐅 Tiger
Bite force
3,043 N
🐊 Nile crocodile
1,525 N
🐅 Tiger
Maximum lifespan
56 yr
🐊 Nile crocodile · AnAge
26 yr
🐅 Tiger · 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.