🐟
Wels catfish
Silurus glanis
Fish · Least concern
vs
🐆
Leopard
Panthera pardus
Carnivores · Vulnerable
One clip names both of them
8,432 views between them.
Wels catfish outweighs Leopard 3.2× — 168 kg against 53.1 kg.
Tale of the tape
Body mass
168 kg
🐟 Wels catfish · AnAge
53 kg
🐆 Leopard · COMBINE
Shoulder height
no figure yet
🐟 Wels catfish
0.72 m
🐆 Leopard
Body length
2.73 m
🐟 Wels catfish · FishBase
1.64 m
🐆 Leopard · COMBINE
Top speed
no figure yet
🐟 Wels catfish
58 km/h
🐆 Leopard
Bite force
no figure yet
🐟 Wels catfish
467 N
🐆 Leopard
Maximum lifespan
60 yr
🐟 Wels catfish · AnAge
27 yr
🐆 Leopard · 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.
Shared ancestry
The closest group they share is Gnathostomata (superclass), home to 90,802 species.
We know what their shared ancestor was, but not when it lived — no dated family tree spans both of them yet.