One clip names both of them

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Blue wildebeest outweighs Cat 46× — 181 kg against 3.9 kg.

Tale of the tape

Body mass

3.9 kg

🐈 Cat · AnAge

181 kg

🐃 Blue wildebeest · COMBINE

Shoulder height

0.26 m

🐈 Cat

no figure yet

🐃 Blue wildebeest

Body length

no figure yet

🐈 Cat

2.21 m

🐃 Blue wildebeest · COMBINE

Maximum lifespan

30 yr

🐈 Cat · AnAge

25 yr

🐃 Blue wildebeest · 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 Laurasiatheria (superorder), home to 4,193 species.

They last shared an ancestor about 64 million years ago.

Estimates range from 58 to 76 million years; the figure above is the middle estimate.

About this estimate

Dates from Upham, Esselstyn & Jetz 2019, PLoS Biology 17:e3000494 (CC0).