🐆
Cheetah
Acinonyx jubatus
Carnivores · Vulnerable
vs
🦏
White rhinoceros
Ceratotherium simum
Mammals · Near threatened
2 clips name both of them
2,458 views between them.
White rhinoceros outweighs Cheetah 44× — 2,230 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
for scale
White rhinoceros
1.78 m
at the shoulder
Tale of the tape
Body mass
51 kg
🐆 Cheetah · COMBINE
2,230 kg
🦏 White rhinoceros · COMBINE
Shoulder height
0.8 m
🐆 Cheetah
1.78 m
🦏 White rhinoceros
Body length
1.49 m
🐆 Cheetah · COMBINE
3.39 m
🦏 White rhinoceros · COMBINE
Top speed
104 km/h
🐆 Cheetah
24 km/h
🦏 White rhinoceros
Bite force
472 N
🐆 Cheetah
no figure yet
🦏 White rhinoceros
Maximum lifespan
20 yr
🐆 Cheetah · COMBINE
50 yr
🦏 White rhinoceros · 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).