🦁
Lion
Panthera leo
Carnivores · Vulnerable
vs
🐦
Western Barn Owl
Tyto alba
Birds · Least concern
One clip names both of them
447 views between them.
Lion outweighs Western Barn Owl 370× — 149 kg against 0.4 kg. Both figures are averages across males and females.
Tale of the tape
Body mass
149 kg
🦁 Lion · COMBINE
0.4 kg
🐦 Western Barn Owl · AVONET
Shoulder height
1.15 m
🦁 Lion
no figure yet
🐦 Western Barn Owl
Body length
2.17 m
🦁 Lion · COMBINE
no figure yet
🐦 Western Barn Owl
Top speed
55 km/h
🦁 Lion
no figure yet
🐦 Western Barn Owl
Bite force
1,768 N
🦁 Lion
no figure yet
🐦 Western Barn Owl
Maximum lifespan
30 yr
🦁 Lion · COMBINE
34 yr
🐦 Western Barn Owl · 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.