One clip names both of them

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Cat outweighs Greater Flamingo 1.3× — 3.9 kg against 3 kg.

Tale of the tape

Body mass

3.9 kg

🐈 Cat · AnAge

3.03 kg

🦩 Greater Flamingo · AVONET

Shoulder height

0.26 m

🐈 Cat

no figure yet

🦩 Greater Flamingo

Maximum lifespan

30 yr

🐈 Cat · AnAge

59 yr

🦩 Greater Flamingo · AnAge

Bars are sized against the larger of the two figures.

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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.