🐆
Cheetah
Acinonyx jubatus
Carnivores · Vulnerable
vs
🦅
Golden eagle
Aquila chrysaetos
Birds · Least concern
One clip names both of them
21 views between them.
Cheetah outweighs Golden eagle 12× — 50.6 kg against 4.2 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 (CC0).
Cheetah
0.80 m
at the shoulder
Human
1.70 m
full standing height
for scale
Golden eagle
0.61 m
full standing height · measured standing
Tale of the tape
Body mass
51 kg
🐆 Cheetah · COMBINE
4.25 kg
🦅 Golden eagle · AVONET
Shoulder height
0.8 m
🐆 Cheetah
no figure yet
🦅 Golden eagle
Body length
1.49 m
🐆 Cheetah · COMBINE
no figure yet
🦅 Golden eagle
Top speed
104 km/h
🐆 Cheetah
no figure yet
🦅 Golden eagle
Bite force
472 N
🐆 Cheetah
no figure yet
🦅 Golden eagle
Maximum lifespan
20 yr
🐆 Cheetah · COMBINE
48 yr
🦅 Golden eagle · AnAge
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 Tetrapoda (superclass), home to 51,389 species.
We know what their shared ancestor was, but not when it lived — no dated family tree spans both of them yet.