🐆
Cheetah
Acinonyx jubatus
Carnivores · Vulnerable
vs
🧍
Human
Homo sapiens
Primates · Least concern
2 clips name both of them
285,128 views between them.
Human outweighs Cheetah 1.2× — 62 kg against 50.6 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
Tale of the tape
Body mass
51 kg
🐆 Cheetah · COMBINE
62 kg
🧍 Human · AnAge
Shoulder height
0.8 m
🐆 Cheetah
no figure yet
🧍 Human
Body length
1.49 m
🐆 Cheetah · COMBINE
no figure yet
🧍 Human
Top speed
104 km/h
🐆 Cheetah
38 km/h
🧍 Human
Bite force
472 N
🐆 Cheetah
843 N
🧍 Human
Maximum lifespan
20 yr
🐆 Cheetah · COMBINE
123 yr
🧍 Human · 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 Theria (subclass), home to 9,319 species.
They last shared an ancestor about 81 million years ago.
Estimates range from 74 to 89 million years; the figure above is the middle estimate.
About this estimate
Dates from Upham, Esselstyn & Jetz 2019, PLoS Biology 17:e3000494 (CC0).