🐈
Cat
Felis catus
Carnivores
vs
🐆
Cheetah
Acinonyx jubatus
Carnivores · Vulnerable
2 clips name both of them
49,134 views between them.
Cheetah outweighs Cat 13× — 50.6 kg against 3.9 kg. Both figures are averages across males and females.
To scale
Grid at 50 cm
50 cm
1 m
1.5 m
2 m
Silhouettes: PhyloPic (CC0).
Cat
0.26 m
at the shoulder
Human
1.70 m
full standing height
for scale
Cheetah
0.80 m
at the shoulder
Tale of the tape
Body mass
3.9 kg
🐈 Cat · AnAge
51 kg
🐆 Cheetah · COMBINE
Shoulder height
0.26 m
🐈 Cat
0.8 m
🐆 Cheetah
Body length
no figure yet
🐈 Cat
1.49 m
🐆 Cheetah · COMBINE
Top speed
no figure yet
🐈 Cat
104 km/h
🐆 Cheetah
Bite force
no figure yet
🐈 Cat
472 N
🐆 Cheetah
Maximum lifespan
30 yr
🐈 Cat · AnAge
20 yr
🐆 Cheetah · 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 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).