🦁
Lion
Panthera leo
Carnivores · Vulnerable
vs
🐍
Puff adder
Bitis arietans
Reptiles · Least concern
One clip names both of them
1,140 views between them.
Lion outweighs Puff adder 63× — 149 kg against 2.4 kg. Both figures are averages across males and females.
Tale of the tape
Body mass
149 kg
🦁 Lion · COMBINE
2.38 kg
🐍 Puff adder · AnAge
Shoulder height
1.15 m
🦁 Lion
no figure yet
🐍 Puff adder
Body length
2.17 m
🦁 Lion · COMBINE
1.85 m
🐍 Puff adder · ReptTraits
Top speed
55 km/h
🦁 Lion
no figure yet
🐍 Puff adder
Bite force
1,768 N
🦁 Lion
no figure yet
🐍 Puff adder
Maximum lifespan
30 yr
🦁 Lion · COMBINE
16 yr
🐍 Puff adder · 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.