🐈
Cat
Felis catus
Carnivores
vs
🐆
Snow leopard
Panthera uncia
Carnivores · Vulnerable
4 clips name both of them
1.8 million views between them.
Snow leopard outweighs Cat 12× — 47.8 kg against 3.9 kg.
To scale
Grid at 50 cm
50 cm
1 m
1.5 m
2 m
Silhouettes: PhyloPic — Gabriela Palomo-Munoz (CC BY-NC); others CC0.
Cat
0.26 m
at the shoulder
Human
1.70 m
full standing height
for scale
Snow leopard
0.60 m
at the shoulder
Tale of the tape
Body mass
3.9 kg
🐈 Cat · AnAge
48 kg
🐆 Snow leopard · COMBINE
Shoulder height
0.26 m
🐈 Cat
0.6 m
🐆 Snow leopard
Body length
no figure yet
🐈 Cat
1.22 m
🐆 Snow leopard · COMBINE
Maximum lifespan
30 yr
🐈 Cat · AnAge
21 yr
🐆 Snow leopard · COMBINE
Bars are sized against the larger of the two figures.
Animals caught on camera
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Shared ancestry
The closest group they share is Felidae (family), home to 91 species.
They last shared an ancestor about 6.8 million years ago.
Estimates range from 5.7 to 7.8 million years; the figure above is the middle estimate.
About this estimate
Dates from Upham, Esselstyn & Jetz 2019, PLoS Biology 17:e3000494 (CC0).