🐆
Cheetah
Acinonyx jubatus
Carnivores · Vulnerable
vs
🐋
Orca
Orcinus orca
Marine mammals · Data deficient
One clip names both of them
15,758 views between them.
Orca outweighs Cheetah 85× — 4,300 kg against 50.6 kg. Both figures are averages across males and females.
Tale of the tape
Body mass
51 kg
🐆 Cheetah · COMBINE
4,300 kg
🐋 Orca · COMBINE
Shoulder height
0.8 m
🐆 Cheetah
no figure yet
🐋 Orca
Body length
1.49 m
🐆 Cheetah · COMBINE
9.23 m
🐋 Orca · COMBINE
Top speed
104 km/h
🐆 Cheetah
no figure yet
🐋 Orca
Bite force
472 N
🐆 Cheetah
no figure yet
🐋 Orca
Maximum lifespan
20 yr
🐆 Cheetah · COMBINE
100 yr
🐋 Orca · 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 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).