🐺
Spotted hyena
Crocuta crocuta
Carnivores · Least concern
vs
🦏
White rhinoceros
Ceratotherium simum
Mammals · Near threatened
One clip names both of them
2,168 views between them.
White rhinoceros outweighs Spotted hyena 35× — 2,230 kg against 63 kg.
To scale
Grid at 50 cm
50 cm
1 m
1.5 m
2 m
Silhouettes: PhyloPic (CC0).
Spotted hyena
0.81 m
at the shoulder
Human
1.70 m
full standing height
for scale
White rhinoceros
1.78 m
at the shoulder
Tale of the tape
Body mass
63 kg
🐺 Spotted hyena · COMBINE
2,230 kg
🦏 White rhinoceros · COMBINE
Shoulder height
0.81 m
🐺 Spotted hyena
1.78 m
🦏 White rhinoceros
Body length
1.38 m
🐺 Spotted hyena · COMBINE
3.39 m
🦏 White rhinoceros · COMBINE
Top speed
60 km/h
🐺 Spotted hyena
24 km/h
🦏 White rhinoceros
Bite force
773 N
🐺 Spotted hyena
no figure yet
🦏 White rhinoceros
Maximum lifespan
41 yr
🐺 Spotted hyena · COMBINE
50 yr
🦏 White rhinoceros · 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).