🐃
Domestic yak
Bos grunniens
Mammals
vs
🐆
Snow leopard
Panthera uncia
Carnivores · Vulnerable
One clip names both of them
434,955 views between them.
Domestic yak outweighs Snow leopard 14× — 667 kg against 47.8 kg.
To scale
Grid at 50 cm
50 cm
1 m
1.5 m
2 m
Silhouettes: PhyloPic — Zimices (CC BY), Gabriela Palomo-Munoz (CC BY-NC); others CC0.
Domestic yak
1.20 m
at the shoulder
Human
1.70 m
full standing height
for scale
Snow leopard
0.60 m
at the shoulder
Tale of the tape
Body mass
667 kg
🐃 Domestic yak · AnAge
48 kg
🐆 Snow leopard · COMBINE
Shoulder height
1.2 m
🐃 Domestic yak
0.6 m
🐆 Snow leopard
Body length
no figure yet
🐃 Domestic yak
1.22 m
🐆 Snow leopard · COMBINE
Maximum lifespan
26 yr
🐃 Domestic yak · AnAge
21 yr
🐆 Snow leopard · 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 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).