🐺
Spotted hyena
Crocuta crocuta
Carnivores · Least concern
vs
🐆
Leopard
Panthera pardus
Carnivores · Vulnerable
22 clips name both of them
38 million views between them.
Spotted hyena outweighs Leopard 1.2× — 63 kg against 53.1 kg.
To scale
Grid at 50 cm
50 cm
1 m
1.5 m
2 m
Silhouettes: PhyloPic — Lukasiniho (CC BY-NC-SA); others CC0.
Spotted hyena
0.81 m
at the shoulder
Human
1.70 m
full standing height
for scale
Leopard
0.72 m
at the shoulder
Tale of the tape
Body mass
63 kg
🐺 Spotted hyena · COMBINE
53 kg
🐆 Leopard · COMBINE
Shoulder height
0.81 m
🐺 Spotted hyena
0.72 m
🐆 Leopard
Body length
1.38 m
🐺 Spotted hyena · COMBINE
1.64 m
🐆 Leopard · COMBINE
Top speed
60 km/h
🐺 Spotted hyena
58 km/h
🐆 Leopard
Bite force
773 N
🐺 Spotted hyena
467 N
🐆 Leopard
Maximum lifespan
41 yr
🐺 Spotted hyena · COMBINE
27 yr
🐆 Leopard · 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
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Shared ancestry
The closest group they share is Feliformia (suborder), home to 257 species.
They last shared an ancestor about 22 million years ago.
Estimates range from 20 to 25 million years; the figure above is the middle estimate.
About this estimate
Dates from Upham, Esselstyn & Jetz 2019, PLoS Biology 17:e3000494 (CC0).