🐊
Nile crocodile
Crocodylus niloticus
Reptiles · Least concern
vs
🦓
Plains zebra
Equus quagga
Mammals · Near threatened
11 clips name both of them
18 million views between them.
Plains zebra outweighs Nile crocodile 3.1× — 290 kg against 94.2 kg.
Tale of the tape
Body mass
94 kg
🐊 Nile crocodile · AnAge
290 kg
🦓 Plains zebra · COMBINE
Body length
5 m
🐊 Nile crocodile · ReptTraits
2.54 m
🦓 Plains zebra · COMBINE
Top speed
9.86 km/h
🐊 Nile crocodile
no figure yet
🦓 Plains zebra
Bite force
3,043 N
🐊 Nile crocodile
no figure yet
🦓 Plains zebra
Maximum lifespan
56 yr
🐊 Nile crocodile · AnAge
40 yr
🦓 Plains zebra · 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.