🐆
Cheetah
Acinonyx jubatus
Carnivores · Vulnerable
vs
🦅
Golden eagle
Aquila chrysaetos
Birds · Least concern
One clip names both of them
21 views between them.
Cheetah outweighs Golden eagle 12× — 50.6 kg against 4.2 kg. Both figures are averages across males and females.
To scale
Grid at 50 cm
50 cm
1 m
1.5 m
2 m
Silhouettes: PhyloPic (CC0).
Cheetah
0.80 m
at the shoulder
Human
1.70 m
full standing height
for scale
Golden eagle
0.61 m
full standing height · measured standing
Tale of the tape
Body mass
51 kg
🐆 Cheetah · COMBINE
4.25 kg
🦅 Golden eagle · AVONET
Shoulder height
0.8 m
🐆 Cheetah
no figure yet
🦅 Golden eagle
Body length
1.49 m
🐆 Cheetah · COMBINE
no figure yet
🦅 Golden eagle
Top speed
104 km/h
🐆 Cheetah
no figure yet
🦅 Golden eagle
Bite force
472 N
🐆 Cheetah
no figure yet
🦅 Golden eagle
Maximum lifespan
20 yr
🐆 Cheetah · COMBINE
48 yr
🦅 Golden eagle · AnAge
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 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.