🦎
American alligator
Alligator mississippiensis
Reptiles · Least concern
vs
🐆
Jaguar
Panthera onca
Carnivores · Near threatened
2 clips name both of them
1.7 million views between them.
American alligator outweighs Jaguar 1.8× — 150 kg against 81.2 kg. Both figures are averages across males and females.
Tale of the tape
Body mass
150 kg
🦎 American alligator · AnAge
81 kg
🐆 Jaguar · COMBINE
Shoulder height
no figure yet
🦎 American alligator
0.71 m
🐆 Jaguar
Body length
4.6 m
🦎 American alligator · ReptTraits
1.59 m
🐆 Jaguar · COMBINE
Bite force
no figure yet
🦎 American alligator
1,014 N
🐆 Jaguar
Maximum lifespan
77 yr
🦎 American alligator · AnAge
28 yr
🐆 Jaguar · COMBINE
Bars are sized against the larger of the two figures. Bite force figures come from individual studies and vary a lot between sources.
Animals caught on camera
Real footage of the animals on this site — hunting, fighting, and getting on with it.
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.