🐾
Giant anteater
Myrmecophaga tridactyla
Mammals · Vulnerable
vs
🐆
Jaguar
Panthera onca
Carnivores · Near threatened
3 clips name both of them
76,998 views between them.
Jaguar outweighs Giant anteater 2.7× — 81.2 kg against 29.5 kg.
Tale of the tape
Body mass
30 kg
🐾 Giant anteater · COMBINE
81 kg
🐆 Jaguar · COMBINE
Shoulder height
no figure yet
🐾 Giant anteater
0.71 m
🐆 Jaguar
Body length
1.51 m
🐾 Giant anteater · COMBINE
1.59 m
🐆 Jaguar · COMBINE
Bite force
no figure yet
🐾 Giant anteater
1,014 N
🐆 Jaguar
Maximum lifespan
32 yr
🐾 Giant anteater · COMBINE
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 Theria (subclass), home to 9,319 species.
They last shared an ancestor about 87 million years ago.
Estimates range from 78 to 117 million years; the figure above is the middle estimate.
About this estimate
Dates from Upham, Esselstyn & Jetz 2019, PLoS Biology 17:e3000494 (CC0).