🧍
Human
Homo sapiens
Primates · Least concern
vs
🐺
Spotted hyena
Crocuta crocuta
Carnivores · Least concern
2 clips name both of them
24,711 views between them.
Level on mass: Human 62 kg, Spotted hyena 63 kg.
To scale
Grid at 50 cm
50 cm
1 m
1.5 m
2 m
Silhouettes: PhyloPic (CC0).
Human
1.70 m
full standing height
Spotted hyena
0.81 m
at the shoulder
Tale of the tape
Body mass
62 kg
🧍 Human · AnAge
63 kg
🐺 Spotted hyena · COMBINE
Shoulder height
no figure yet
🧍 Human
0.81 m
🐺 Spotted hyena
Body length
no figure yet
🧍 Human
1.38 m
🐺 Spotted hyena · COMBINE
Top speed
38 km/h
🧍 Human
60 km/h
🐺 Spotted hyena
Bite force
843 N
🧍 Human
773 N
🐺 Spotted hyena
Maximum lifespan
123 yr
🧍 Human · AnAge
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 Theria (subclass), home to 9,319 species.
They last shared an ancestor about 81 million years ago.
Estimates range from 74 to 89 million years; the figure above is the middle estimate.
About this estimate
Dates from Upham, Esselstyn & Jetz 2019, PLoS Biology 17:e3000494 (CC0).