🐆
Leopard
Panthera pardus
Carnivores · Vulnerable
vs
🐦
Griffon Vulture
Gyps fulvus
Birds · Least concern
One clip names both of them
2,463 views between them.
Leopard outweighs Griffon Vulture 7.1× — 53.1 kg against 7.4 kg.
Tale of the tape
Body mass
53 kg
🐆 Leopard · COMBINE
7.44 kg
🐦 Griffon Vulture · AVONET
Shoulder height
0.72 m
🐆 Leopard
no figure yet
🐦 Griffon Vulture
Body length
1.64 m
🐆 Leopard · COMBINE
no figure yet
🐦 Griffon Vulture
Top speed
58 km/h
🐆 Leopard
no figure yet
🐦 Griffon Vulture
Bite force
467 N
🐆 Leopard
no figure yet
🐦 Griffon Vulture
Maximum lifespan
27 yr
🐆 Leopard · 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.