🦡
Honey badger
Mellivora capensis
Carnivores · Least concern
vs
🐺
Spotted hyena
Crocuta crocuta
Carnivores · Least concern
2 clips name both of them
1,831 views between them.
Spotted hyena outweighs Honey badger 6.3× — 63 kg against 10 kg.
To scale
Grid at 50 cm
50 cm
1 m
1.5 m
2 m
Silhouettes: PhyloPic (CC0).
Honey badger
0.26 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
10 kg
🦡 Honey badger · COMBINE
63 kg
🐺 Spotted hyena · COMBINE
Shoulder height
0.26 m
🦡 Honey badger
0.81 m
🐺 Spotted hyena
Body length
0.73 m
🦡 Honey badger · COMBINE
1.38 m
🐺 Spotted hyena · COMBINE
Top speed
no figure yet
🦡 Honey badger
60 km/h
🐺 Spotted hyena
Bite force
no figure yet
🦡 Honey badger
773 N
🐺 Spotted hyena
Maximum lifespan
31 yr
🦡 Honey badger · 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
Real footage of the animals on this site — hunting, fighting, and getting on with it.
Shared ancestry
The closest group they share is Carnivora (order), home to 728 species.
They last shared an ancestor about 39 million years ago.
Estimates range from 32 to 45 million years; the figure above is the middle estimate.
About this estimate
Dates from Upham, Esselstyn & Jetz 2019, PLoS Biology 17:e3000494 (CC0).