🐆
Jaguar
Panthera onca
Carnivores · Near threatened
vs
🦁
Lion
Panthera leo
Carnivores · Vulnerable
3 clips name both of them
13 million views between them.
Lion outweighs Jaguar 1.8× — 149 kg against 81.2 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.
Jaguar
0.71 m
at the shoulder
Human
1.70 m
full standing height
for scale
Lion
1.15 m
at the shoulder
Tale of the tape
Body mass
81 kg
🐆 Jaguar · COMBINE
149 kg
🦁 Lion · COMBINE
Shoulder height
0.71 m
🐆 Jaguar
1.15 m
🦁 Lion
Body length
1.59 m
🐆 Jaguar · COMBINE
2.17 m
🦁 Lion · COMBINE
Top speed
no figure yet
🐆 Jaguar
55 km/h
🦁 Lion
Bite force
1,014 N
🐆 Jaguar
1,768 N
🦁 Lion
Maximum lifespan
28 yr
🐆 Jaguar · COMBINE
30 yr
🦁 Lion · COMBINE
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 Panthera (genus), home to 20 species.
They last shared an ancestor about 2.7 million years ago.
Estimates range from 1.9 to 3.7 million years; the figure above is the middle estimate.
About this estimate
Dates from Upham, Esselstyn & Jetz 2019, PLoS Biology 17:e3000494 (CC0).