One clip names both of them

762 views between them.

Caracal outweighs Asian palm civet 4.4× — 14 kg against 3.2 kg.

Tale of the tape

Body mass

14 kg

🐱 Caracal · COMBINE

3.18 kg

🐾 Asian palm civet · COMBINE

Shoulder height

0.46 m

🐱 Caracal

no figure yet

🐾 Asian palm civet

Body length

0.83 m

🐱 Caracal · COMBINE

0.62 m

🐾 Asian palm civet · COMBINE

Maximum lifespan

20 yr

🐱 Caracal · COMBINE

25 yr

🐾 Asian palm civet · 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 Feliformia (suborder), home to 257 species.

They last shared an ancestor about 22 million years ago.

Estimates range from 20 to 25 million years; the figure above is the middle estimate.

About this estimate

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