🐭
Guinea pig
Cavia porcellus
Mammals · Not evaluated
vs
🦁
Lion
Panthera leo
Carnivores · Vulnerable
One clip names both of them
3 million views between them.
Lion outweighs Guinea pig 200× — 149 kg against 0.7 kg. Both figures are averages across males and females.
Tale of the tape
Body mass
0.73 kg
🐭 Guinea pig · AnAge
149 kg
🦁 Lion · COMBINE
Shoulder height
no figure yet
🐭 Guinea pig
1.15 m
🦁 Lion
Body length
no figure yet
🐭 Guinea pig
2.17 m
🦁 Lion · COMBINE
Top speed
no figure yet
🐭 Guinea pig
55 km/h
🦁 Lion
Bite force
no figure yet
🐭 Guinea pig
1,768 N
🦁 Lion
Maximum lifespan
12 yr
🐭 Guinea pig · 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 Theria (subclass), home to 9,319 species.
They last shared an ancestor about 81 million years ago.
Estimates range from 74 to 89 million years; the figure above is the middle estimate.
About this estimate
Dates from Upham, Esselstyn & Jetz 2019, PLoS Biology 17:e3000494 (CC0).