🦛
Hippopotamus
Hippopotamus amphibius
Mammals · Vulnerable
vs
🐺
Spotted hyena
Crocuta crocuta
Carnivores · Least concern
5 clips name both of them
66 million views between them.
Hippopotamus outweighs Spotted hyena 42× — 2,640 kg against 63 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
for scale
Spotted hyena
0.81 m
at the shoulder
Tale of the tape
Body mass
2,640 kg
🦛 Hippopotamus · COMBINE
63 kg
🐺 Spotted hyena · COMBINE
Shoulder height
1.47 m
🦛 Hippopotamus
0.81 m
🐺 Spotted hyena
Body length
5.05 m
🦛 Hippopotamus · COMBINE
1.38 m
🐺 Spotted hyena · COMBINE
Top speed
24 km/h
🦛 Hippopotamus
60 km/h
🐺 Spotted hyena
Bite force
no figure yet
🦛 Hippopotamus
773 N
🐺 Spotted hyena
Maximum lifespan
61 yr
🦛 Hippopotamus · COMBINE
41 yr
🐺 Spotted hyena · 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
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Shared ancestry
The closest group they share is Laurasiatheria (superorder), home to 4,193 species.
We know what their shared ancestor was, but not when it lived — no dated family tree spans both of them yet.