🦛
Hippopotamus
Hippopotamus amphibius
Mammals · Vulnerable
vs
🐦
Griffon Vulture
Gyps fulvus
Birds · Least concern
One clip names both of them
175 views between them.
Hippopotamus outweighs Griffon Vulture 360× — 2,640 kg against 7.4 kg.
Tale of the tape
Body mass
2,640 kg
🦛 Hippopotamus · COMBINE
7.44 kg
🐦 Griffon Vulture · AVONET
Shoulder height
1.47 m
🦛 Hippopotamus
no figure yet
🐦 Griffon Vulture
Body length
5.05 m
🦛 Hippopotamus · COMBINE
no figure yet
🐦 Griffon Vulture
Top speed
24 km/h
🦛 Hippopotamus
no figure yet
🐦 Griffon Vulture
Maximum lifespan
61 yr
🦛 Hippopotamus · COMBINE
41 yr
🐦 Griffon Vulture · AnAge
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 Tetrapoda (superclass), home to 51,389 species.
We know what their shared ancestor was, but not when it lived — no dated family tree spans both of them yet.