🦁
Lion
Panthera leo
Carnivores · Vulnerable
vs
🐒
Rhesus macaque
Macaca mulatta
Primates · Least concern
2 clips name both of them
11 million views between them.
Lion outweighs Rhesus macaque 23× — 149 kg against 6.6 kg. Both figures are averages across males and females.
Tale of the tape
Body mass
149 kg
🦁 Lion · COMBINE
6.61 kg
🐒 Rhesus macaque · COMBINE
Shoulder height
1.15 m
🦁 Lion
no figure yet
🐒 Rhesus macaque
Body length
2.17 m
🦁 Lion · COMBINE
0.66 m
🐒 Rhesus macaque · COMBINE
Top speed
55 km/h
🦁 Lion
no figure yet
🐒 Rhesus macaque
Bite force
1,768 N
🦁 Lion
no figure yet
🐒 Rhesus macaque
Maximum lifespan
30 yr
🦁 Lion · COMBINE
40 yr
🐒 Rhesus macaque · 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 Theria (subclass), home to 9,319 species.
They last shared an ancestor about 81 million years ago.
Estimates range from 74 to 89 million years; the figure above is the middle estimate.
About this estimate
Dates from Upham, Esselstyn & Jetz 2019, PLoS Biology 17:e3000494 (CC0).