🐹
Capybara
Hydrochoerus hydrochaeris
Mammals · Least concern
vs
🐆
Jaguar
Panthera onca
Carnivores · Near threatened
2 clips name both of them
14 million views between them.
Jaguar outweighs Capybara 1.6× — 81.2 kg against 51.6 kg.
To scale
Grid at 50 cm
50 cm
1 m
1.5 m
2 m
Silhouettes: PhyloPic — Lukasiniho (CC BY-NC-SA); others CC0.
Capybara
0.57 m
at the shoulder
Human
1.70 m
full standing height
for scale
Jaguar
0.71 m
at the shoulder
Tale of the tape
Body mass
52 kg
🐹 Capybara · COMBINE
81 kg
🐆 Jaguar · COMBINE
Shoulder height
0.57 m
🐹 Capybara
0.71 m
🐆 Jaguar
Body length
1.25 m
🐹 Capybara · COMBINE
1.59 m
🐆 Jaguar · COMBINE
Bite force
no figure yet
🐹 Capybara
1,014 N
🐆 Jaguar
Maximum lifespan
15 yr
🐹 Capybara · COMBINE
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.
Animales captados por la cámara
Imágenes reales de los animales de este sitio: cazando, peleando y haciendo su vida.
Shared ancestry
The closest group they share is Theria (subclass), home to 9,319 species.
They last shared an ancestor about 81 million years ago.
Estimates range from 74 to 89 million years; the figure above is the middle estimate.
About this estimate
Dates from Upham, Esselstyn & Jetz 2019, PLoS Biology 17:e3000494 (CC0).