🦡
Honey badger
Mellivora capensis
Carnivores · Least concern
vs
🦁
Lion
Panthera leo
Carnivores · Vulnerable
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Lion outweighs Honey badger 15× — 149 kg against 10 kg. Both figures are averages across males and females.
To scale
Grid at 50 cm
50 cm
1 m
1.5 m
2 m
Silhouettes: PhyloPic — Lukasiniho (CC BY-NC-SA); others CC0.
Honey badger
0.26 m
at the shoulder
Human
1.70 m
full standing height
for scale
Lion
1.15 m
at the shoulder
Tale of the tape
Body mass
10 kg
🦡 Honey badger · COMBINE
149 kg
🦁 Lion · COMBINE
Shoulder height
0.26 m
🦡 Honey badger
1.15 m
🦁 Lion
Body length
0.73 m
🦡 Honey badger · COMBINE
2.17 m
🦁 Lion · COMBINE
Top speed
no figure yet
🦡 Honey badger
55 km/h
🦁 Lion
Bite force
no figure yet
🦡 Honey badger
1,768 N
🦁 Lion
Maximum lifespan
31 yr
🦡 Honey badger · COMBINE
30 yr
🦁 Lion · COMBINE
Bars are sized against the larger of the two figures. Bite force figures come from individual studies and vary a lot between sources.
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Shared ancestry
The closest group they share is Carnivora (order), home to 728 species.
They last shared an ancestor about 39 million years ago.
Estimates range from 32 to 45 million years; the figure above is the middle estimate.
About this estimate
Dates from Upham, Esselstyn & Jetz 2019, PLoS Biology 17:e3000494 (CC0).