🐟
Wels catfish
Silurus glanis
Fish · Least concern
vs
🐅
Tiger
Panthera tigris
Carnivores · Endangered
One clip names both of them
468 views between them.
Wels catfish outweighs Tiger 1.3× — 168 kg against 129 kg. Both figures are averages across males and females.
Tale of the tape
Body mass
168 kg
🐟 Wels catfish · AnAge
129 kg
🐅 Tiger · COMBINE
Shoulder height
no figure yet
🐟 Wels catfish
0.91 m
🐅 Tiger
Body length
2.73 m
🐟 Wels catfish · FishBase
2.31 m
🐅 Tiger · COMBINE
Top speed
no figure yet
🐟 Wels catfish
54 km/h
🐅 Tiger
Bite force
no figure yet
🐟 Wels catfish
1,525 N
🐅 Tiger
Maximum lifespan
60 yr
🐟 Wels catfish · 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.
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.