🦁
Lion
Panthera leo
Carnivores · Vulnerable
vs
🦩
Common ostrich
Struthio camelus
Birds · Least concern
2 clips name both of them
78,017 views between them.
Lion outweighs Common ostrich 1.3× — 149 kg against 111 kg. Both figures are averages across males and females.
To scale
Grid at 1 m
1 m
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Silhouettes: PhyloPic — Lukasiniho (CC BY-NC-SA), Matt Martyniuk (vectorized by T. Michael Keesey) (CC BY-SA); others CC0.
Lion
1.15 m
at the shoulder
Human
1.70 m
full standing height
for scale
Common ostrich
2.75 m
full standing height
Tale of the tape
Body mass
149 kg
🦁 Lion · COMBINE
111 kg
🦩 Common ostrich · AVONET
Shoulder height
1.15 m
🦁 Lion
no figure yet
🦩 Common ostrich
Body length
2.17 m
🦁 Lion · COMBINE
no figure yet
🦩 Common ostrich
Top speed
55 km/h
🦁 Lion
no figure yet
🦩 Common ostrich
Bite force
1,768 N
🦁 Lion
no figure yet
🦩 Common ostrich
Maximum lifespan
30 yr
🦁 Lion · COMBINE
50 yr
🦩 Common ostrich · 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.