🦁
Lion
Panthera leo
Carnivores · Vulnerable
vs
🐾
Common warthog
Phacochoerus africanus
Mammals · Least concern
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Lion outweighs Common warthog 1.6× — 149 kg against 91.3 kg. Both figures are averages across males and females.
Tale of the tape
Body mass
149 kg
🦁 Lion · COMBINE
91 kg
🐾 Common warthog · COMBINE
Shoulder height
1.15 m
🦁 Lion
no figure yet
🐾 Common warthog
Body length
2.17 m
🦁 Lion · COMBINE
1.36 m
🐾 Common warthog · COMBINE
Top speed
55 km/h
🦁 Lion
no figure yet
🐾 Common warthog
Bite force
1,768 N
🦁 Lion
no figure yet
🐾 Common warthog
Maximum lifespan
30 yr
🦁 Lion · COMBINE
21 yr
🐾 Common warthog · COMBINE
Bars are sized against the larger of the two figures. Bite force figures come from individual studies and vary a lot between sources.
镜头下的动物
站内动物的实拍影像——捕猎、打斗，还有各自过日子的样子。
Shared ancestry
The closest group they share is Laurasiatheria (superorder), home to 4,193 species.
They last shared an ancestor about 64 million years ago.
Estimates range from 58 to 76 million years; the figure above is the middle estimate.
About this estimate
Dates from Upham, Esselstyn & Jetz 2019, PLoS Biology 17:e3000494 (CC0).