🐆
Leopard
Panthera pardus
Carnivores · Vulnerable
vs
🐆
Big cats
Pantherinae
Mammals
average across the group
16 clips name both of them
7.4 million views between them.
Big cats outweigh Leopard 1.7× — 92 kg against 53.1 kg.
To scale
Grid at 50 cm
50 cm
1 m
1.5 m
2 m
Silhouettes: PhyloPic — Lukasiniho (CC BY-NC-SA); others CC0.
Leopard
0.72 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
53 kg
🐆 Leopard · COMBINE
92 kg
🐆 Big cats · group average
Shoulder height
0.72 m
🐆 Leopard
0.82 m
🐆 Big cats · group average
Body length
1.64 m
🐆 Leopard · COMBINE
1.79 m
🐆 Big cats · group average
Top speed
58 km/h
🐆 Leopard
56 km/h
🐆 Big cats · group average
Bite force
467 N
🐆 Leopard
1,194 N
🐆 Big cats · group average
Maximum lifespan
27 yr
🐆 Leopard · 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 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.