🐆
Leopard
Panthera pardus
Carnivores · Vulnerable
vs
🦁
Lion
Panthera leo
Carnivores · Vulnerable
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Lion outweighs Leopard 2.8× — 149 kg against 53.1 kg. Both figures are averages across males and females.
To scale
Grid at 50 cm
50 cm
1 m
1.5 m
2 m
Silhouettes: PhyloPic — Lukasiniho (CC BY-NC-SA); others CC0.
Leopard
0.72 m
at the shoulder
Human
1.70 m
full standing height
for scale
Lion
1.15 m
at the shoulder
Tale of the tape
Body mass
53 kg
🐆 Leopard · COMBINE
149 kg
🦁 Lion · COMBINE
Shoulder height
0.72 m
🐆 Leopard
1.15 m
🦁 Lion
Body length
1.64 m
🐆 Leopard · COMBINE
2.17 m
🦁 Lion · COMBINE
Top speed
58 km/h
🐆 Leopard
55 km/h
🦁 Lion
Bite force
467 N
🐆 Leopard
1,768 N
🦁 Lion
Maximum lifespan
27 yr
🐆 Leopard · COMBINE
30 yr
🦁 Lion · COMBINE
Bars are sized against the larger of the two figures. Bite force figures come from individual studies and vary a lot between sources.
حيوانات أمام الكاميرا
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Shared ancestry
The closest group they share is Panthera (genus), home to 20 species.
They last shared an ancestor about 1.8 million years ago.
Estimates range from 1.2 to 2.4 million years; the figure above is the middle estimate.
About this estimate
Dates from Upham, Esselstyn & Jetz 2019, PLoS Biology 17:e3000494 (CC0).