🐺
Spotted hyena
Crocuta crocuta
Carnivores · Least concern
vs
🐦
Griffon Vulture
Gyps fulvus
Birds · Least concern
2 clips name both of them
288 views between them.
Spotted hyena outweighs Griffon Vulture 8.5× — 63 kg against 7.4 kg.
Tale of the tape
Body mass
63 kg
🐺 Spotted hyena · COMBINE
7.44 kg
🐦 Griffon Vulture · AVONET
Shoulder height
0.81 m
🐺 Spotted hyena
no figure yet
🐦 Griffon Vulture
Body length
1.38 m
🐺 Spotted hyena · COMBINE
no figure yet
🐦 Griffon Vulture
Top speed
60 km/h
🐺 Spotted hyena
no figure yet
🐦 Griffon Vulture
Bite force
773 N
🐺 Spotted hyena
no figure yet
🐦 Griffon Vulture
Maximum lifespan
41 yr
🐺 Spotted hyena · COMBINE
41 yr
🐦 Griffon Vulture · AnAge
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 Tetrapoda (superclass), home to 51,389 species.
We know what their shared ancestor was, but not when it lived — no dated family tree spans both of them yet.