🐈
Canada lynx
Lynx canadensis
Carnivores · Least concern
vs
🐈
Cat
Felis catus
Carnivores
One clip names both of them
23,305 views between them.
Canada lynx outweighs Cat 2.5× — 9.7 kg against 3.9 kg.
To scale
Grid at 50 cm
50 cm
1 m
1.5 m
2 m
Silhouettes: PhyloPic (CC0).
Canada lynx
0.52 m
at the shoulder
Human
1.70 m
full standing height
for scale
Cat
0.26 m
at the shoulder
Tale of the tape
Body mass
9.68 kg
🐈 Canada lynx · COMBINE
3.9 kg
🐈 Cat · AnAge
Shoulder height
0.52 m
🐈 Canada lynx
0.26 m
🐈 Cat
Body length
0.81 m
🐈 Canada lynx · COMBINE
no figure yet
🐈 Cat
Maximum lifespan
27 yr
🐈 Canada lynx · COMBINE
30 yr
🐈 Cat · AnAge
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 Felidae (family), home to 91 species.
They last shared an ancestor about 5.2 million years ago.
Estimates range from 4.5 to 6.4 million years; the figure above is the middle estimate.
About this estimate
Dates from Upham, Esselstyn & Jetz 2019, PLoS Biology 17:e3000494 (CC0).