🐈
Cat
Felis catus
Carnivores
vs
🦊
Red fox
Vulpes vulpes
Carnivores · Least concern
3 clips name both of them
6.6 million views between them.
Red fox outweighs Cat 1.2× — 4.6 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
Red fox
0.41 m
at the shoulder
Tale of the tape
Body mass
3.9 kg
🐈 Cat · AnAge
4.58 kg
🦊 Red fox · COMBINE
Shoulder height
0.26 m
🐈 Cat
0.41 m
🦊 Red fox
Body length
no figure yet
🐈 Cat
0.63 m
🦊 Red fox · COMBINE
Maximum lifespan
30 yr
🐈 Cat · AnAge
21 yr
🦊 Red fox · 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 Carnivora (order), home to 728 species.
They last shared an ancestor about 39 million years ago.
Estimates range from 32 to 45 million years; the figure above is the middle estimate.
About this estimate
Dates from Upham, Esselstyn & Jetz 2019, PLoS Biology 17:e3000494 (CC0).