🐈
Cat
Felis catus
Carnivores
vs
🐊
Nile crocodile
Crocodylus niloticus
Reptiles · Least concern
One clip names both of them
576 views between them.
Nile crocodile outweighs Cat 24× — 94.2 kg against 3.9 kg.
Tale of the tape
Body mass
3.9 kg
🐈 Cat · AnAge
94 kg
🐊 Nile crocodile · AnAge
Shoulder height
0.26 m
🐈 Cat
no figure yet
🐊 Nile crocodile
Body length
no figure yet
🐈 Cat
5 m
🐊 Nile crocodile · ReptTraits
Top speed
no figure yet
🐈 Cat
9.86 km/h
🐊 Nile crocodile
Bite force
no figure yet
🐈 Cat
3,043 N
🐊 Nile crocodile
Maximum lifespan
30 yr
🐈 Cat · AnAge
56 yr
🐊 Nile crocodile · AnAge
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 Tetrapoda (superclass), home to 51,389 species.
We know what their shared ancestor was, but not when it lived — no dated family tree spans both of them yet.