🦛
Hippopotamus
Hippopotamus amphibius
Mammals · Vulnerable
vs
🦁
Lion
Panthera leo
Carnivores · Vulnerable
43 clips name both of them
83 million views between them.
Hippopotamus outweighs Lion 18× — 2,640 kg against 149 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.
Hippopotamus
1.47 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
2,640 kg
🦛 Hippopotamus · COMBINE
149 kg
🦁 Lion · COMBINE
Shoulder height
1.47 m
🦛 Hippopotamus
1.15 m
🦁 Lion
Body length
5.05 m
🦛 Hippopotamus · COMBINE
2.17 m
🦁 Lion · COMBINE
Top speed
24 km/h
🦛 Hippopotamus
55 km/h
🦁 Lion
Bite force
no figure yet
🦛 Hippopotamus
1,768 N
🦁 Lion
Maximum lifespan
61 yr
🦛 Hippopotamus · 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.
Animais flagrados pela câmera
Imagens reais dos animais deste site — caçando, brigando e levando a vida.
Shared ancestry
The closest group they share is Laurasiatheria (superorder), home to 4,193 species.
We know what their shared ancestor was, but not when it lived — no dated family tree spans both of them yet.