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Spotted hyena
Crocuta crocuta
Carnivores · Least concern
vs
🐿️
Eastern gray squirrel
Sciurus carolinensis
Mammals · Least concern
One clip names both of them
4,430 views between them.
Spotted hyena outweighs Eastern gray squirrel 120× — 63 kg against 0.5 kg.
Tale of the tape
Body mass
63 kg
🐺 Spotted hyena · COMBINE
0.54 kg
🐿️ Eastern gray squirrel · COMBINE
Shoulder height
0.81 m
🐺 Spotted hyena
no figure yet
🐿️ Eastern gray squirrel
Body length
1.38 m
🐺 Spotted hyena · COMBINE
0.32 m
🐿️ Eastern gray squirrel · COMBINE
Top speed
60 km/h
🐺 Spotted hyena
no figure yet
🐿️ Eastern gray squirrel
Bite force
773 N
🐺 Spotted hyena
no figure yet
🐿️ Eastern gray squirrel
Maximum lifespan
41 yr
🐺 Spotted hyena · COMBINE
24 yr
🐿️ Eastern gray squirrel · 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).