One clip names both of them

1,529 views between them.

Olive baboon outweighs Caracal 1.3× — 17.7 kg against 14 kg.

Tale of the tape

Body mass

18 kg

🐒 Olive baboon · COMBINE

14 kg

🐱 Caracal · COMBINE

Shoulder height

no figure yet

🐒 Olive baboon

0.46 m

🐱 Caracal

Body length

0.76 m

🐒 Olive baboon · COMBINE

0.83 m

🐱 Caracal · COMBINE

Maximum lifespan

45 yr

🐒 Olive baboon · COMBINE

20 yr

🐱 Caracal · COMBINE

Bars are sized against the larger of the two figures.

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 81 million years ago.

Estimates range from 74 to 89 million years; the figure above is the middle estimate.

About this estimate

Dates from Upham, Esselstyn & Jetz 2019, PLoS Biology 17:e3000494 (CC0).