🐈
Cat
Felis catus
Carnivores
vs
🐃
Blue wildebeest
Connochaetes taurinus
Mammals · Least concern
One clip names both of them
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Blue wildebeest outweighs Cat 46× — 181 kg against 3.9 kg.
Tale of the tape
Body mass
3.9 kg
🐈 Cat · AnAge
181 kg
🐃 Blue wildebeest · COMBINE
Shoulder height
0.26 m
🐈 Cat
no figure yet
🐃 Blue wildebeest
Body length
no figure yet
🐈 Cat
2.21 m
🐃 Blue wildebeest · COMBINE
Maximum lifespan
30 yr
🐈 Cat · AnAge
25 yr
🐃 Blue wildebeest · COMBINE
Bars are sized against the larger of the two figures.
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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).