🦅
Golden eagle
Aquila chrysaetos
Birds · Least concern
vs
🦛
Hippopotamus
Hippopotamus amphibius
Mammals · Vulnerable
One clip names both of them
2,246 views between them.
Hippopotamus outweighs Golden eagle 620× — 2,640 kg against 4.2 kg. Both figures are averages across males and females.
To scale
Grid at 50 cm
50 cm
1 m
1.5 m
2 m
Silhouettes: PhyloPic (CC0).
Golden eagle
0.61 m
full standing height · measured standing
Human
1.70 m
full standing height
for scale
Hippopotamus
1.47 m
at the shoulder
Tale of the tape
Body mass
4.25 kg
🦅 Golden eagle · AVONET
2,640 kg
🦛 Hippopotamus · COMBINE
Shoulder height
no figure yet
🦅 Golden eagle
1.47 m
🦛 Hippopotamus
Body length
no figure yet
🦅 Golden eagle
5.05 m
🦛 Hippopotamus · COMBINE
Top speed
no figure yet
🦅 Golden eagle
24 km/h
🦛 Hippopotamus
Maximum lifespan
48 yr
🦅 Golden eagle · AnAge
61 yr
🦛 Hippopotamus · COMBINE
Bars are sized against the larger of the two figures.
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.