🐈
Cat
Felis catus
Carnivores
vs
🐿️
Eastern gray squirrel
Sciurus carolinensis
Mammals · Least concern
80 clips name both of them
35 million views between them.
Cat outweighs Eastern gray squirrel 7.2× — 3.9 kg against 0.5 kg.
Tale of the tape
Body mass
3.9 kg
🐈 Cat · AnAge
0.54 kg
🐿️ Eastern gray squirrel · COMBINE
Shoulder height
0.26 m
🐈 Cat
no figure yet
🐿️ Eastern gray squirrel
Body length
no figure yet
🐈 Cat
0.32 m
🐿️ Eastern gray squirrel · COMBINE
Maximum lifespan
30 yr
🐈 Cat · AnAge
24 yr
🐿️ Eastern gray squirrel · 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).