🐆
Big cats
Pantherinae
Mammals
average across the group
vs
🐺
Grey wolf
Canis lupus
Carnivores · Least concern
One clip names both of them
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Big cats outweigh Grey wolf 3.2× — 92 kg against 29.2 kg.
To scale
Grid at 50 cm
50 cm
1 m
1.5 m
2 m
Silhouettes: PhyloPic (CC0).
Big cats
0.82 m
at the shoulder
Human
1.70 m
full standing height
for scale
Grey wolf
0.73 m
at the shoulder · measured lying down
Tale of the tape
Body mass
92 kg
🐆 Big cats · group average
29 kg
🐺 Grey wolf · COMBINE
Shoulder height
0.82 m
🐆 Big cats · group average
0.73 m
🐺 Grey wolf
Body length
1.79 m
🐆 Big cats · group average
1.27 m
🐺 Grey wolf · COMBINE
Top speed
56 km/h
🐆 Big cats · group average
62 km/h
🐺 Grey wolf
Bite force
1,194 N
🐆 Big cats · group average
593 N
🐺 Grey wolf
Maximum lifespan
27 yr
🐆 Big cats · group average
29 yr
🐺 Grey wolf · 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.
We know what their shared ancestor was, but not when it lived — no dated family tree spans both of them yet.