🐈
Cat
Felis catus
Carnivores
vs
🐐
Goat
Capra aegagrus hircus
Mammals · Not evaluated
3 clips name both of them
835,677 views between them.
Goat outweighs Cat 16× — 61 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
Goat
0.64 m
at the shoulder
Tale of the tape
Body mass
3.9 kg
🐈 Cat · AnAge
61 kg
🐐 Goat · AnAge
Shoulder height
0.26 m
🐈 Cat
0.64 m
🐐 Goat
Maximum lifespan
30 yr
🐈 Cat · AnAge
21 yr
🐐 Goat · 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 Laurasiatheria (superorder), home to 4,193 species.
They last shared an ancestor about 64 million years ago.
Estimates range from 58 to 76 million years; the figure above is the middle estimate.
About this estimate
Dates from Upham, Esselstyn & Jetz 2019, PLoS Biology 17:e3000494 (CC0).