🐈
Cat
Felis catus
Carnivores
vs
🐱
Serval
Leptailurus serval
Carnivores · Least concern
6 clips name both of them
18 million views between them.
Serval outweighs Cat 3.1× — 12 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
Serval
0.60 m
at the shoulder
Tale of the tape
Body mass
3.9 kg
🐈 Cat · AnAge
12 kg
🐱 Serval · COMBINE
Shoulder height
0.26 m
🐈 Cat
0.6 m
🐱 Serval
Body length
no figure yet
🐈 Cat
0.92 m
🐱 Serval · COMBINE
Maximum lifespan
30 yr
🐈 Cat · AnAge
23 yr
🐱 Serval · 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 Felidae (family), home to 91 species.
They last shared an ancestor about 5.9 million years ago.
Estimates range from 5.1 to 7.1 million years; the figure above is the middle estimate.
About this estimate
Dates from Upham, Esselstyn & Jetz 2019, PLoS Biology 17:e3000494 (CC0).