🐈
Cat
Felis catus
Carnivores
vs
🦦
Eurasian otter
Lutra lutra
Carnivores · Near threatened
10 clips name both of them
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Eurasian otter outweighs Cat 2.0× — 7.8 kg against 3.9 kg.
Tale of the tape
Body mass
3.9 kg
🐈 Cat · AnAge
7.81 kg
🦦 Eurasian otter · COMBINE
Shoulder height
0.26 m
🐈 Cat
no figure yet
🦦 Eurasian otter
Body length
no figure yet
🐈 Cat
0.75 m
🦦 Eurasian otter · COMBINE
Maximum lifespan
30 yr
🐈 Cat · AnAge
22 yr
🦦 Eurasian otter · COMBINE
Bars are sized against the larger of the two figures.
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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).