🦡
Honey badger
Mellivora capensis
Carnivores · Least concern
vs
🐍
Indian cobra
Naja naja
Reptiles · Least concern
One clip names both of them
54,176 views between them.
Honey badger outweighs Indian cobra 5.9× — 10 kg against 1.7 kg.
Tale of the tape
Body mass
10 kg
🦡 Honey badger · COMBINE
1.68 kg
🐍 Indian cobra · ReptTraits
Shoulder height
0.26 m
🦡 Honey badger
no figure yet
🐍 Indian cobra
Body length
0.73 m
🦡 Honey badger · COMBINE
2.2 m
🐍 Indian cobra · ReptTraits
Maximum lifespan
31 yr
🦡 Honey badger · COMBINE
32 yr
🐍 Indian cobra · 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.