🦁
Lion
Panthera leo
Carnivores · Vulnerable
vs
🐆
Big cats
Pantherinae
Mammals
average across the group
78 clips name both of them
172 million views between them.
Lion outweighs Big cats 1.6× — 149 kg against 92 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 — Lukasiniho (CC BY-NC-SA); others CC0.
Lion
1.15 m
at the shoulder
Human
1.70 m
full standing height
for scale
Big cats
0.82 m
at the shoulder
Tale of the tape
Body mass
149 kg
🦁 Lion · COMBINE
92 kg
🐆 Big cats · group average
Shoulder height
1.15 m
🦁 Lion
0.82 m
🐆 Big cats · group average
Body length
2.17 m
🦁 Lion · COMBINE
1.79 m
🐆 Big cats · group average
Top speed
55 km/h
🦁 Lion
56 km/h
🐆 Big cats · group average
Bite force
1,768 N
🦁 Lion
1,194 N
🐆 Big cats · group average
Maximum lifespan
30 yr
🦁 Lion · COMBINE
27 yr
🐆 Big cats · group average
Bars are sized against the larger of the two figures. Bite force figures come from individual studies and vary a lot between sources.
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Shared ancestry
The closest group they share is Feliformia (suborder), home to 257 species.
We know what their shared ancestor was, but not when it lived — no dated family tree spans both of them yet.