🐈
Cat
Felis catus
Carnivores
vs
🐎
Horse
Equus ferus caballus
Mammals
One clip names both of them
6.2 million views between them.
Horse outweighs Cat 77× — 300 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
Horse
1.61 m
at the shoulder
Tale of the tape
Body mass
3.9 kg
🐈 Cat · AnAge
300 kg
🐎 Horse · AnAge
Shoulder height
0.26 m
🐈 Cat
1.61 m
🐎 Horse
Top speed
no figure yet
🐈 Cat
64 km/h
🐎 Horse
Maximum lifespan
30 yr
🐈 Cat · AnAge
57 yr
🐎 Horse · 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).