3 clips name both of them

636,005 views between them.

Rhesus macaque outweighs Cat 1.7× — 6.6 kg against 3.9 kg.

Tale of the tape

Body mass

3.9 kg

🐈 Cat · AnAge

6.61 kg

🐒 Rhesus macaque · COMBINE

Shoulder height

0.26 m

🐈 Cat

no figure yet

🐒 Rhesus macaque

Body length

no figure yet

🐈 Cat

0.66 m

🐒 Rhesus macaque · COMBINE

Maximum lifespan

30 yr

🐈 Cat · AnAge

40 yr

🐒 Rhesus macaque · 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 Theria (subclass), home to 9,319 species.

They last shared an ancestor about 81 million years ago.

Estimates range from 74 to 89 million years; the figure above is the middle estimate.

About this estimate

Dates from Upham, Esselstyn & Jetz 2019, PLoS Biology 17:e3000494 (CC0).