🐎
Horse
Equus ferus caballus
Mammals
vs
🦁
Lion
Panthera leo
Carnivores · Vulnerable
One clip names both of them
Horse outweighs Lion 2.0× — 300 kg against 149 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 — Lukasiniho (CC BY-NC-SA); others CC0.
Horse
1.61 m
at the shoulder
Human
1.70 m
full standing height
for scale
Lion
1.15 m
at the shoulder
Tale of the tape
Body mass
300 kg
🐎 Horse · AnAge
149 kg
🦁 Lion · COMBINE
Shoulder height
1.61 m
🐎 Horse
1.15 m
🦁 Lion
Body length
no figure yet
🐎 Horse
2.17 m
🦁 Lion · COMBINE
Top speed
64 km/h
🐎 Horse
55 km/h
🦁 Lion
Bite force
no figure yet
🐎 Horse
1,768 N
🦁 Lion
Maximum lifespan
57 yr
🐎 Horse · AnAge
30 yr
🦁 Lion · 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.
They last shared an ancestor about 64 million years ago.
Estimates range from 58 to 76 million years; the figure above is the middle estimate.
About this estimate
Dates from Upham, Esselstyn & Jetz 2019, PLoS Biology 17:e3000494 (CC0).