🐈
Cat
Felis catus
Carnivores
vs
🐕
Dog
Canis familiaris
Carnivores
352 clips name both of them
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Dog outweighs Cat 10× — 40 kg against 3.9 kg.
Tale of the tape
Body mass
3.9 kg
🐈 Cat · AnAge
40 kg
🐕 Dog · AnAge
Shoulder height
0.26 m
🐈 Cat
no figure yet
🐕 Dog
Maximum lifespan
30 yr
🐈 Cat · AnAge
27 yr
🐕 Dog · AnAge
Bars are sized against the larger of the two figures.
حیوانات در قاب دوربین
فیلم واقعی از حیوانات این سایت — در حال شکار، درگیری و گذران زندگی روزمره.
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).