🐆
Leopard
Panthera pardus
Carnivores · Vulnerable
vs
🐃
Blue wildebeest
Connochaetes taurinus
Mammals · Least concern
3 clips name both of them
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Blue wildebeest outweighs Leopard 3.4× — 181 kg against 53.1 kg.
Tale of the tape
Body mass
53 kg
🐆 Leopard · COMBINE
181 kg
🐃 Blue wildebeest · COMBINE
Shoulder height
0.72 m
🐆 Leopard
no figure yet
🐃 Blue wildebeest
Body length
1.64 m
🐆 Leopard · COMBINE
2.21 m
🐃 Blue wildebeest · COMBINE
Top speed
58 km/h
🐆 Leopard
no figure yet
🐃 Blue wildebeest
Bite force
467 N
🐆 Leopard
no figure yet
🐃 Blue wildebeest
Maximum lifespan
27 yr
🐆 Leopard · COMBINE
25 yr
🐃 Blue wildebeest · COMBINE
Bars are sized against the larger of the two figures. Bite force figures come from individual studies and vary a lot between sources.
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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 Laurasiatheria (superorder), home to 4,193 species.
They last shared an ancestor about 64 million years ago.
Estimates range from 58 to 76 million years; the figure above is the middle estimate.
About this estimate
Dates from Upham, Esselstyn & Jetz 2019, PLoS Biology 17:e3000494 (CC0).