🦛
Hippopotamus
Hippopotamus amphibius
Mammals · Vulnerable
vs
🐅
Tiger
Panthera tigris
Carnivores · Endangered
One clip names both of them
399,921 views between them.
Hippopotamus outweighs Tiger 20× — 2,640 kg against 129 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 — Gabriela Palomo-Munoz (CC BY-NC); others CC0.
Hippopotamus
1.47 m
at the shoulder
Human
1.70 m
full standing height
for scale
Tiger
0.91 m
at the shoulder · measured standing
Tale of the tape
Body mass
2,640 kg
🦛 Hippopotamus · COMBINE
129 kg
🐅 Tiger · COMBINE
Shoulder height
1.47 m
🦛 Hippopotamus
0.91 m
🐅 Tiger
Body length
5.05 m
🦛 Hippopotamus · COMBINE
2.31 m
🐅 Tiger · COMBINE
Top speed
24 km/h
🦛 Hippopotamus
54 km/h
🐅 Tiger
Bite force
no figure yet
🦛 Hippopotamus
1,525 N
🐅 Tiger
Maximum lifespan
61 yr
🦛 Hippopotamus · COMBINE
26 yr
🐅 Tiger · 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 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.