🦛
Hippopotamus
Hippopotamus amphibius
Mammals · Vulnerable
vs
🐆
Big cats
Pantherinae
Mammals
average across the group
One clip names both of them
399,921 views between them.
Hippopotamus outweighs Big cats 29× — 2,640 kg against 92 kg.
To scale
Grid at 50 cm
50 cm
1 m
1.5 m
2 m
Silhouettes: PhyloPic (CC0).
Hippopotamus
1.47 m
at the shoulder
Human
1.70 m
full standing height
for scale
Big cats
0.82 m
at the shoulder
Tale of the tape
Body mass
2,640 kg
🦛 Hippopotamus · COMBINE
92 kg
🐆 Big cats · group average
Shoulder height
1.47 m
🦛 Hippopotamus
0.82 m
🐆 Big cats · group average
Body length
5.05 m
🦛 Hippopotamus · COMBINE
1.79 m
🐆 Big cats · group average
Top speed
24 km/h
🦛 Hippopotamus
56 km/h
🐆 Big cats · group average
Bite force
no figure yet
🦛 Hippopotamus
1,194 N
🐆 Big cats · group average
Maximum lifespan
61 yr
🦛 Hippopotamus · COMBINE
27 yr
🐆 Big cats · 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.
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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.