🐈
Cat
Felis catus
Carnivores
vs
🦅
Golden eagle
Aquila chrysaetos
Birds · Least concern
7 clips name both of them
54 million views between them.
Level on mass: Cat 3.9 kg, Golden eagle 4.2 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
Golden eagle
0.61 m
full standing height · measured standing
Tale of the tape
Body mass
3.9 kg
🐈 Cat · AnAge
4.25 kg
🦅 Golden eagle · AVONET
Shoulder height
0.26 m
🐈 Cat
no figure yet
🦅 Golden eagle
Maximum lifespan
30 yr
🐈 Cat · AnAge
48 yr
🦅 Golden eagle · 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 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.