🐈
Cat
Felis catus
Carnivores
vs
🐭
House mouse
Mus musculus
Mammals · Least concern
13 clips name both of them
509,507 views between them.
Cat outweighs House mouse 190× — 3.9 kg against 0 kg.
Tale of the tape
Body mass
3.9 kg
🐈 Cat · AnAge
0.02 kg
🐭 House mouse · COMBINE
Shoulder height
0.26 m
🐈 Cat
no figure yet
🐭 House mouse
Body length
no figure yet
🐈 Cat
0.1 m
🐭 House mouse · COMBINE
Maximum lifespan
30 yr
🐈 Cat · AnAge
6 yr
🐭 House mouse · 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).