🦎
American alligator
Alligator mississippiensis
Reptiles · Least concern
vs
🐆
Jaguar
Panthera onca
Carnivores · Near threatened
2 clips name both of them
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American alligator outweighs Jaguar 1.8× — 150 kg against 81.2 kg. Both figures are averages across males and females.
Tale of the tape
Body mass
150 kg
🦎 American alligator · AnAge
81 kg
🐆 Jaguar · COMBINE
Shoulder height
no figure yet
🦎 American alligator
0.71 m
🐆 Jaguar
Body length
4.6 m
🦎 American alligator · ReptTraits
1.59 m
🐆 Jaguar · COMBINE
Bite force
no figure yet
🦎 American alligator
1,014 N
🐆 Jaguar
Maximum lifespan
77 yr
🦎 American alligator · AnAge
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 Tetrapoda (superclass), home to 51,389 species.
We know what their shared ancestor was, but not when it lived — no dated family tree spans both of them yet.