🐈
Cat
Felis catus
Carnivores
vs
🐾
Cougar
Puma concolor
Carnivores · Least concern
One clip names both of them
22,896 views between them.
Cougar outweighs Cat 12× — 48 kg against 3.9 kg.
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
Cougar
0.76 m
at the shoulder
Tale of the tape
Body mass
3.9 kg
🐈 Cat · AnAge
48 kg
🐾 Cougar · COMBINE
Shoulder height
0.26 m
🐈 Cat
0.76 m
🐾 Cougar
Body length
no figure yet
🐈 Cat
1.68 m
🐾 Cougar · COMBINE
Maximum lifespan
30 yr
🐈 Cat · AnAge
24 yr
🐾 Cougar · 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 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).