🐺
Spotted hyena
Crocuta crocuta
Carnivores · Least concern
vs
🦓
Plains zebra
Equus quagga
Mammals · Near threatened
5 clips name both of them
1.5 million views between them.
Plains zebra outweighs Spotted hyena 4.6× — 290 kg against 63 kg.
Tale of the tape
Body mass
63 kg
🐺 Spotted hyena · COMBINE
290 kg
🦓 Plains zebra · COMBINE
Shoulder height
0.81 m
🐺 Spotted hyena
no figure yet
🦓 Plains zebra
Body length
1.38 m
🐺 Spotted hyena · COMBINE
2.54 m
🦓 Plains zebra · COMBINE
Top speed
60 km/h
🐺 Spotted hyena
no figure yet
🦓 Plains zebra
Bite force
773 N
🐺 Spotted hyena
no figure yet
🦓 Plains zebra
Maximum lifespan
41 yr
🐺 Spotted hyena · COMBINE
40 yr
🦓 Plains zebra · 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).