🐈
Cat
Felis catus
Carnivores
vs
🐅
Tiger
Panthera tigris
Carnivores · Endangered
16 clips name both of them
54 million views between them.
Tiger outweighs Cat 33× — 129 kg against 3.9 kg. Both figures are averages across males and females.
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
Tiger
0.91 m
at the shoulder · measured standing
Tale of the tape
Body mass
3.9 kg
🐈 Cat · AnAge
129 kg
🐅 Tiger · COMBINE
Shoulder height
0.26 m
🐈 Cat
0.91 m
🐅 Tiger
Body length
no figure yet
🐈 Cat
2.31 m
🐅 Tiger · COMBINE
Top speed
no figure yet
🐈 Cat
54 km/h
🐅 Tiger
Bite force
no figure yet
🐈 Cat
1,525 N
🐅 Tiger
Maximum lifespan
30 yr
🐈 Cat · AnAge
26 yr
🐅 Tiger · COMBINE
Bars are sized against the larger of the two figures. Bite force figures come from individual studies and vary a lot between sources.
Animals caught on camera
Real footage of the animals on this site — hunting, fighting, and getting on with it.
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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).