🦆
Mallard
Anas platyrhynchos
Birds · Least concern
vs
🦁
Lion
Panthera leo
Carnivores · Vulnerable
2 clips name both of them
24,068 views between them.
Lion outweighs Mallard 180× — 149 kg against 0.8 kg. Both figures are averages across males and females.
Tale of the tape
Body mass
0.84 kg
🦆 Mallard · AVONET
149 kg
🦁 Lion · COMBINE
Shoulder height
no figure yet
🦆 Mallard
1.15 m
🦁 Lion
Body length
no figure yet
🦆 Mallard
2.17 m
🦁 Lion · COMBINE
Top speed
no figure yet
🦆 Mallard
55 km/h
🦁 Lion
Bite force
no figure yet
🦆 Mallard
1,768 N
🦁 Lion
Maximum lifespan
29 yr
🦆 Mallard · AnAge
30 yr
🦁 Lion · 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.