🦡
Giant otter
Pteronura brasiliensis
Carnivores · Endangered
vs
🐆
Jaguar
Panthera onca
Carnivores · Near threatened
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Jaguar outweighs Giant otter 3.4× — 81.2 kg against 24 kg. Both figures are averages across males and females.
Tale of the tape
Body mass
24 kg
🦡 Giant otter · COMBINE
81 kg
🐆 Jaguar · COMBINE
Shoulder height
no figure yet
🦡 Giant otter
0.71 m
🐆 Jaguar
Body length
1.27 m
🦡 Giant otter · COMBINE
1.59 m
🐆 Jaguar · COMBINE
Bite force
no figure yet
🦡 Giant otter
1,014 N
🐆 Jaguar
Maximum lifespan
17 yr
🦡 Giant otter · COMBINE
28 yr
🐆 Jaguar · COMBINE
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 Carnivora (order), home to 728 species.
They last shared an ancestor about 39 million years ago.
Estimates range from 32 to 45 million years; the figure above is the middle estimate.
About this estimate
Dates from Upham, Esselstyn & Jetz 2019, PLoS Biology 17:e3000494 (CC0).