🦅
Golden eagle
Aquila chrysaetos
Birds · Least concern
vs
🐆
Big cats
Pantherinae
Mammals
average across the group
One clip names both of them
7,410 views between them.
Big cats outweigh Golden eagle 22× — 92 kg against 4.2 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 (CC0).
Golden eagle
0.61 m
full standing height · measured standing
Human
1.70 m
full standing height
for scale
Big cats
0.82 m
at the shoulder
Tale of the tape
Body mass
4.25 kg
🦅 Golden eagle · AVONET
92 kg
🐆 Big cats · group average
Shoulder height
no figure yet
🦅 Golden eagle
0.82 m
🐆 Big cats · group average
Body length
no figure yet
🦅 Golden eagle
1.79 m
🐆 Big cats · group average
Top speed
no figure yet
🦅 Golden eagle
56 km/h
🐆 Big cats · group average
Bite force
no figure yet
🦅 Golden eagle
1,194 N
🐆 Big cats · group average
Maximum lifespan
48 yr
🦅 Golden eagle · AnAge
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.
Kamerára vett állatok
Igazi felvételek az oldal állatairól — ahogy vadásznak, ahogy harcolnak, és ahogy egyszerűen csak élnek.
Shared ancestry
The closest group they share is Tetrapoda (superclass), home to 51,389 species.
We know what their shared ancestor was, but not when it lived — no dated family tree spans both of them yet.