Hyena's have the most powerful bite in the animal kingdom, however pound per square inch doesn't mean shit when a Lion outweights you by couple hundred pounds.
9. Spotted/Striped HyenaTheir teeth are more specialized for consuming coarse food, crushing and digesting large bones.
Their milk contains one of the richest calcium of all land predators, from bones they eat. PSI: 1100
8. Polar BearBears are mostly omnivorous, they have very strong teeth, the incisors are relatively big and the canine teeth are large. Unlike most animals in order carnivorous, their teeth are adapted for vegetable diet. Polar bears diet however mostly consists of seals. PSI: 1235
7. Grizzly BearBears are mostly omnivorous, they have very strong teeth, the incisors are relatively big and the canine teeth are large. Unlike most animals in order carnivorous, their teeth are adapted for vegetable diet. Polar bears diet however mostly consists of seals. PSI: 1250
6. Bull SharkSharks have the strongest bite among animals in class fish. The great whites PSI isn’t that big but it doesn’t necessarily need a strong bite force, because much of the damage inflicted by sharks is due to their teeth. Their teeth cut through the flesh of their prey like knife through butter. PSI: 1250
5. Silverback GorillaTheir teeth are big, not very sharp but they have very strong neck and jaw muscles. Capable of giving a strong bite force. They are primary herbivores, their jaws are adapted to chew and digest hard plants like bamboos. PSI: 1300
4. Hippopotamus
They have more powerful jaw muscles and extremely large tendons despite their teeth being less sharp compared to most carnivores. Although they’re herbivores, they have the strongest bite among all mammals. PSI: 1821
3. American AlligatorSince alligators feed by grabbing and holding onto their prey, they have evolved sharp teeth for tearing and holding onto flesh. With very powerful muscles, they can close the jaws and hold them shut. PSI: 2125
2. Nile CrocodileCrocodiles have quite smaller jaw muscles and teeth anatomy adaptation like alligators. They have the strongest bite ever measured on living animals. But they have weak jaw opening strength, compared to powerful jaw closing strength. PSI: 5000
1. Saltwater CrocodileCrocodiles have quite smaller jaw muscles and teeth anatomy adaptation like alligators. They have the strongest bite ever measured on living animals. But they have weak jaw opening strength, compared to powerful jaw closing strength. PSI: 7700
More contenders (bite force strengths haven’t been measured yet): Killer Whale, Wolverine, Tiger Shark, Leopard, Piranha, Sperm Whale etc.
Honorable mentions: Cape Hunting Dog, has a PSI of 340, right behind the cougar. It’s said they’re at 743 PSI which would easily put them on the list. But other claims have said they have a bite force even higher than hyenas. There has been no concrete proof on either of these claims, take it as you will.
Myth: Tasmanian Devil, strongest PSI bite force in an animal? Not true. They’re around 20 pounds in weight and their PSI is 200.
They do however process the strongest bite compared to their body size among any other animal, which means their BFQ would be considerably higher.
