🦛
Hippopotamus
Hippopotamus amphibius
Mammals · Vulnerable
vs
🧍
Human
Homo sapiens
Primates · Least concern
4 clips name both of them
24 million views between them.
Hippopotamus outweighs Human 43× — 2,640 kg against 62 kg.
To scale
Grid at 50 cm
50 cm
1 m
1.5 m
2 m
Silhouettes: PhyloPic (CC0).
Hippopotamus
1.47 m
at the shoulder
Human
1.70 m
full standing height
Tale of the tape
Body mass
2,640 kg
🦛 Hippopotamus · COMBINE
62 kg
🧍 Human · AnAge
Shoulder height
1.47 m
🦛 Hippopotamus
no figure yet
🧍 Human
Body length
5.05 m
🦛 Hippopotamus · COMBINE
no figure yet
🧍 Human
Top speed
24 km/h
🦛 Hippopotamus
38 km/h
🧍 Human
Bite force
no figure yet
🦛 Hippopotamus
843 N
🧍 Human
Maximum lifespan
61 yr
🦛 Hippopotamus · COMBINE
123 yr
🧍 Human · 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 Theria (subclass), home to 9,319 species.
We know what their shared ancestor was, but not when it lived — no dated family tree spans both of them yet.