🐈
Cat
Felis catus
Carnivores
vs
🐈
Fossa
Cryptoprocta ferox
Carnivores · Vulnerable
One clip names both of them
851 views between them.
Fossa outweighs Cat 2.4× — 9.5 kg against 3.9 kg.
To scale
Grid at 50 cm
50 cm
1 m
1.5 m
2 m
Silhouettes: PhyloPic (CC0).
Cat
0.26 m
at the shoulder
Human
1.70 m
full standing height
for scale
Fossa
0.37 m
at the shoulder
Tale of the tape
Body mass
3.9 kg
🐈 Cat · AnAge
9.5 kg
🐈 Fossa · COMBINE
Shoulder height
0.26 m
🐈 Cat
0.37 m
🐈 Fossa
Body length
no figure yet
🐈 Cat
0.76 m
🐈 Fossa · COMBINE
Maximum lifespan
30 yr
🐈 Cat · AnAge
23 yr
🐈 Fossa · COMBINE
Bars are sized against the larger of the two figures.
カメラがとらえた動物たち
このサイトに登場する動物の実際の映像——狩り、けんか、そしてふだんの暮らしぶりまでそろっています。
Shared ancestry
The closest group they share is Feliformia (suborder), home to 257 species.
They last shared an ancestor about 22 million years ago.
Estimates range from 20 to 25 million years; the figure above is the middle estimate.
About this estimate
Dates from Upham, Esselstyn & Jetz 2019, PLoS Biology 17:e3000494 (CC0).