🐊
Nile crocodile
Crocodylus niloticus
Reptiles · Least concern
vs
🐦
Griffon Vulture
Gyps fulvus
Birds · Least concern
One clip names both of them
476,923 views between them.
Nile crocodile outweighs Griffon Vulture 13× — 94.2 kg against 7.4 kg.
Tale of the tape
Body mass
94 kg
🐊 Nile crocodile · AnAge
7.44 kg
🐦 Griffon Vulture · AVONET
Body length
5 m
🐊 Nile crocodile · ReptTraits
no figure yet
🐦 Griffon Vulture
Top speed
9.86 km/h
🐊 Nile crocodile
no figure yet
🐦 Griffon Vulture
Bite force
3,043 N
🐊 Nile crocodile
no figure yet
🐦 Griffon Vulture
Maximum lifespan
56 yr
🐊 Nile crocodile · AnAge
41 yr
🐦 Griffon Vulture · 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.