🐬
Common bottlenose dolphin
Tursiops truncatus
Marine mammals · Least concern
vs
🐆
Big cats
Pantherinae
Mammals
average across the group
One clip names both of them
303 views between them.
Common bottlenose dolphin outweighs Big cats 2.5× — 230 kg against 92 kg.
Tale of the tape
Body mass
230 kg
🐬 Common bottlenose dolphin · COMBINE
92 kg
🐆 Big cats · group average
Shoulder height
no figure yet
🐬 Common bottlenose dolphin
0.82 m
🐆 Big cats · group average
Body length
3.63 m
🐬 Common bottlenose dolphin · COMBINE
1.79 m
🐆 Big cats · group average
Top speed
no figure yet
🐬 Common bottlenose dolphin
56 km/h
🐆 Big cats · group average
Bite force
no figure yet
🐬 Common bottlenose dolphin
1,194 N
🐆 Big cats · group average
Maximum lifespan
53 yr
🐬 Common bottlenose dolphin · 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.
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 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.