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Spotted hyena
Crocuta crocuta
Carnivores · Least concern
vs
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Blue wildebeest
Connochaetes taurinus
Mammals · Least concern
3 clips name both of them
313,373 views between them.
Blue wildebeest outweighs Spotted hyena 2.9× — 181 kg against 63 kg.
Tale of the tape
Body mass
63 kg
🐺 Spotted hyena · COMBINE
181 kg
🐃 Blue wildebeest · COMBINE
Shoulder height
0.81 m
🐺 Spotted hyena
no figure yet
🐃 Blue wildebeest
Body length
1.38 m
🐺 Spotted hyena · COMBINE
2.21 m
🐃 Blue wildebeest · COMBINE
Top speed
60 km/h
🐺 Spotted hyena
no figure yet
🐃 Blue wildebeest
Bite force
773 N
🐺 Spotted hyena
no figure yet
🐃 Blue wildebeest
Maximum lifespan
41 yr
🐺 Spotted hyena · COMBINE
25 yr
🐃 Blue wildebeest · 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).