🦁
Lion
Panthera leo
Carnivores · Vulnerable
vs
🦔
Giant pangolin
Smutsia gigantea
Mammals · Endangered
4 clips name both of them
529,007 views between them.
Lion outweighs Giant pangolin 4.5× — 149 kg against 33 kg. Both figures are averages across males and females.
Tale of the tape
Body mass
149 kg
🦁 Lion · COMBINE
33 kg
🦔 Giant pangolin · COMBINE
Shoulder height
1.15 m
🦁 Lion
no figure yet
🦔 Giant pangolin
Body length
2.17 m
🦁 Lion · COMBINE
1.01 m
🦔 Giant pangolin · COMBINE · estimated
Top speed
55 km/h
🦁 Lion
no figure yet
🦔 Giant pangolin
Bite force
1,768 N
🦁 Lion
no figure yet
🦔 Giant pangolin
Maximum lifespan
30 yr
🦁 Lion · COMBINE
4.57 yr
🦔 Giant pangolin · 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
We can’t trace a shared ancestor for these two yet.
Both have a family tree, but nothing named joins the two yet.