🦁
Lion
Panthera leo
Carnivores · Vulnerable
vs
🐾
Indian grey mongoose
Urva edwardsii
Carnivores · Least concern
One clip names both of them
2,649 views between them.
Tale of the tape
Body mass
149 kg
🦁 Lion · COMBINE
no figure yet
🐾 Indian grey mongoose
Shoulder height
1.15 m
🦁 Lion
no figure yet
🐾 Indian grey mongoose
Body length
2.17 m
🦁 Lion · COMBINE
no figure yet
🐾 Indian grey mongoose
Top speed
55 km/h
🦁 Lion
no figure yet
🐾 Indian grey mongoose
Bite force
1,768 N
🦁 Lion
no figure yet
🐾 Indian grey mongoose
Maximum lifespan
30 yr
🦁 Lion · COMBINE
no figure yet
🐾 Indian grey mongoose
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 Feliformia (suborder), home to 257 species.
They last shared an ancestor about 22 million years ago.
Estimates range from 20 to 25 million years; the figure above is the middle estimate.
About this estimate
Dates from Upham, Esselstyn & Jetz 2019, PLoS Biology 17:e3000494 (CC0).