🐺
Spotted hyena
Crocuta crocuta
Carnivores · Least concern
vs
🐾
Indian grey mongoose
Urva edwardsii
Carnivores · Least concern
One clip names both of them
9,276 views between them.
Tale of the tape
Body mass
63 kg
🐺 Spotted hyena · COMBINE
no figure yet
🐾 Indian grey mongoose
Shoulder height
0.81 m
🐺 Spotted hyena
no figure yet
🐾 Indian grey mongoose
Body length
1.38 m
🐺 Spotted hyena · COMBINE
no figure yet
🐾 Indian grey mongoose
Top speed
60 km/h
🐺 Spotted hyena
no figure yet
🐾 Indian grey mongoose
Bite force
773 N
🐺 Spotted hyena
no figure yet
🐾 Indian grey mongoose
Maximum lifespan
41 yr
🐺 Spotted hyena · COMBINE
no figure yet
🐾 Indian grey mongoose
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 Feliformia (suborder), home to 257 species.
They last shared an ancestor about 18 million years ago.
Estimates range from 16 to 21 million years; the figure above is the middle estimate.
About this estimate
Dates from Upham, Esselstyn & Jetz 2019, PLoS Biology 17:e3000494 (CC0).