🐆
Cheetah
Acinonyx jubatus
Carnivores · Vulnerable
vs
🐆
Big cats
Pantherinae
Mammals
average across the group
One clip names both of them
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Big cats outweigh Cheetah 1.8× — 92 kg against 50.6 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).
Cheetah
0.80 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
51 kg
🐆 Cheetah · COMBINE
92 kg
🐆 Big cats · group average
Shoulder height
0.8 m
🐆 Cheetah
0.82 m
🐆 Big cats · group average
Body length
1.49 m
🐆 Cheetah · COMBINE
1.79 m
🐆 Big cats · group average
Top speed
104 km/h
🐆 Cheetah
56 km/h
🐆 Big cats · group average
Bite force
472 N
🐆 Cheetah
1,194 N
🐆 Big cats · group average
Maximum lifespan
20 yr
🐆 Cheetah · 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.
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이 사이트에 실린 동물들의 실제 영상 — 사냥하고, 싸우고, 그냥 하루를 살아가는 모습까지 담았어요.
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.