🦁
Lion
Panthera leo
Carnivores · Vulnerable
vs
🐾
Asian palm civet
Paradoxurus hermaphroditus
Carnivores · Least concern
3 clips name both of them
1,253 views between them.
Lion outweighs Asian palm civet 47× — 149 kg against 3.2 kg. Both figures are averages across males and females.
Tale of the tape
Body mass
149 kg
🦁 Lion · COMBINE
3.18 kg
🐾 Asian palm civet · COMBINE
Shoulder height
1.15 m
🦁 Lion
no figure yet
🐾 Asian palm civet
Body length
2.17 m
🦁 Lion · COMBINE
0.62 m
🐾 Asian palm civet · COMBINE
Top speed
55 km/h
🦁 Lion
no figure yet
🐾 Asian palm civet
Bite force
1,768 N
🦁 Lion
no figure yet
🐾 Asian palm civet
Maximum lifespan
30 yr
🦁 Lion · COMBINE
25 yr
🐾 Asian palm civet · 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 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).