🐆
Big cats
Pantherinae
Mammals
average across the group
vs
🐃
Blue wildebeest
Connochaetes taurinus
Mammals · Least concern
47 clips name both of them
2.1 million views between them.
Blue wildebeest outweighs Big cats 2.0× — 181 kg against 92 kg.
Tale of the tape
Body mass
92 kg
🐆 Big cats · group average
181 kg
🐃 Blue wildebeest · COMBINE
Shoulder height
0.82 m
🐆 Big cats · group average
no figure yet
🐃 Blue wildebeest
Body length
1.79 m
🐆 Big cats · group average
2.21 m
🐃 Blue wildebeest · COMBINE
Top speed
56 km/h
🐆 Big cats · group average
no figure yet
🐃 Blue wildebeest
Bite force
1,194 N
🐆 Big cats · group average
no figure yet
🐃 Blue wildebeest
Maximum lifespan
27 yr
🐆 Big cats · group average
25 yr
🐃 Blue wildebeest · COMBINE
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 Laurasiatheria (superorder), home to 4,193 species.
We know what their shared ancestor was, but not when it lived — no dated family tree spans both of them yet.