🐈
Cat
Felis catus
Carnivores
vs
🐾
Leopard seal
Hydrurga leptonyx
Carnivores · Least concern
One clip names both of them
16 views between them.
Leopard seal outweighs Cat 96× — 376 kg against 3.9 kg. Both figures are averages across males and females.
Tale of the tape
Body mass
3.9 kg
🐈 Cat · AnAge
376 kg
🐾 Leopard seal · COMBINE
Shoulder height
0.26 m
🐈 Cat
no figure yet
🐾 Leopard seal
Body length
no figure yet
🐈 Cat
3.02 m
🐾 Leopard seal · COMBINE
Maximum lifespan
30 yr
🐈 Cat · AnAge
26 yr
🐾 Leopard seal · COMBINE
Bars are sized against the larger of the two figures.
חיות מול המצלמה
צילומים אמיתיים של החיות באתר – צדות, נלחמות, ופשוט ממשיכות בשלהן.
Shared ancestry
The closest group they share is Carnivora (order), home to 728 species.
They last shared an ancestor about 39 million years ago.
Estimates range from 32 to 45 million years; the figure above is the middle estimate.
About this estimate
Dates from Upham, Esselstyn & Jetz 2019, PLoS Biology 17:e3000494 (CC0).