🦛
Hippopotamus
Hippopotamus amphibius
Mammals · Vulnerable
vs
🎐
Box jellyfish
Chironex fleckeri
Invertebrates
One clip names both of them
2.7 million views between them.
Tale of the tape
Body mass
2,640 kg
🦛 Hippopotamus · COMBINE
no figure yet
🎐 Box jellyfish
Shoulder height
1.47 m
🦛 Hippopotamus
no figure yet
🎐 Box jellyfish
Body length
5.05 m
🦛 Hippopotamus · COMBINE
no figure yet
🎐 Box jellyfish
Top speed
24 km/h
🦛 Hippopotamus
no figure yet
🎐 Box jellyfish
Maximum lifespan
61 yr
🦛 Hippopotamus · COMBINE
no figure yet
🎐 Box jellyfish
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 Metazoa (kingdom), home to 1,490,245 species.
We know what their shared ancestor was, but not when it lived — no dated family tree spans both of them yet.