🐈
Cat
Felis catus
Carnivores
vs
🧍
Human
Homo sapiens
Primates · Least concern
9 clips name both of them
3.8 million views between them.
Human outweighs Cat 16× — 62 kg against 3.9 kg.
To scale
Grid at 50 cm
50 cm
1 m
1.5 m
2 m
Silhouettes: PhyloPic (CC0).
Cat
0.26 m
at the shoulder
Human
1.70 m
full standing height
Tale of the tape
Body mass
3.9 kg
🐈 Cat · AnAge
62 kg
🧍 Human · AnAge
Shoulder height
0.26 m
🐈 Cat
no figure yet
🧍 Human
Top speed
no figure yet
🐈 Cat
38 km/h
🧍 Human
Bite force
no figure yet
🐈 Cat
843 N
🧍 Human
Maximum lifespan
30 yr
🐈 Cat · AnAge
123 yr
🧍 Human · AnAge
Bars are sized against the larger of the two figures. Bite force figures come from individual studies and vary a lot between sources.
Les animaux pris sur le vif
De vraies images des animaux de ce site — à la chasse, au combat, ou vaquant simplement à leurs occupations.
Shared ancestry
The closest group they share is Theria (subclass), home to 9,319 species.
They last shared an ancestor about 81 million years ago.
Estimates range from 74 to 89 million years; the figure above is the middle estimate.
About this estimate
Dates from Upham, Esselstyn & Jetz 2019, PLoS Biology 17:e3000494 (CC0).