🐈
Cat
Felis catus
Carnivores
vs
🐾
Red Panda
Ailurus fulgens
Carnivores · Endangered
One clip names both of them
980,478 views between them.
Red Panda outweighs Cat 1.2× — 4.7 kg against 3.9 kg.
Tale of the tape
Body mass
3.9 kg
🐈 Cat · AnAge
4.75 kg
🐾 Red Panda · COMBINE
Shoulder height
0.26 m
🐈 Cat
no figure yet
🐾 Red Panda
Body length
no figure yet
🐈 Cat
0.61 m
🐾 Red Panda · COMBINE
Maximum lifespan
30 yr
🐈 Cat · AnAge
19 yr
🐾 Red Panda · 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).