🐆
Jaguar
Panthera onca
Carnivores · Near threatened
vs
🦦
Eurasian otter
Lutra lutra
Carnivores · Near threatened
One clip names both of them
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Jaguar outweighs Eurasian otter 10× — 81.2 kg against 7.8 kg.
Tale of the tape
Body mass
81 kg
🐆 Jaguar · COMBINE
7.81 kg
🦦 Eurasian otter · COMBINE
Shoulder height
0.71 m
🐆 Jaguar
no figure yet
🦦 Eurasian otter
Body length
1.59 m
🐆 Jaguar · COMBINE
0.75 m
🦦 Eurasian otter · COMBINE
Bite force
1,014 N
🐆 Jaguar
no figure yet
🦦 Eurasian otter
Maximum lifespan
28 yr
🐆 Jaguar · COMBINE
22 yr
🦦 Eurasian otter · 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).