🦁
Lion
Panthera leo
Carnivores · Vulnerable
vs
🐍
Snakes
Serpentes
Reptiles
average across the group
5 clips name both of them
118,411 views between them.
Lion outweighs Snakes 1.9× — 149 kg against 77.5 kg. Both figures are averages across males and females.
Tale of the tape
Body mass
149 kg
🦁 Lion · COMBINE
77 kg
🐍 Snakes · group average
Shoulder height
1.15 m
🦁 Lion
no figure yet
🐍 Snakes
Body length
2.17 m
🦁 Lion · COMBINE
3.9 m
🐍 Snakes · group average
Top speed
55 km/h
🦁 Lion
no figure yet
🐍 Snakes
Bite force
1,768 N
🦁 Lion
no figure yet
🐍 Snakes
Maximum lifespan
30 yr
🦁 Lion · COMBINE
27 yr
🐍 Snakes · group average
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.