🦁
Lion
Panthera leo
Carnivores · Vulnerable
vs
🐦
Griffon Vulture
Gyps fulvus
Birds · Least concern
4 clips name both of them
3,904 views between them.
Lion outweighs Griffon Vulture 20× — 149 kg against 7.4 kg. Both figures are averages across males and females.
Tale of the tape
Body mass
149 kg
🦁 Lion · COMBINE
7.44 kg
🐦 Griffon Vulture · AVONET
Shoulder height
1.15 m
🦁 Lion
no figure yet
🐦 Griffon Vulture
Body length
2.17 m
🦁 Lion · COMBINE
no figure yet
🐦 Griffon Vulture
Top speed
55 km/h
🦁 Lion
no figure yet
🐦 Griffon Vulture
Bite force
1,768 N
🦁 Lion
no figure yet
🐦 Griffon Vulture
Maximum lifespan
30 yr
🦁 Lion · COMBINE
41 yr
🐦 Griffon Vulture · 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.