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Chimpanzee
Pan troglodytes
Primates ยท Endangered
vs
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Tiger
Panthera tigris
Carnivores ยท Endangered

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Tiger outweighs Chimpanzee 2.9ร— โ€” 129 kg against 45 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 โ€” T. Michael Keesey (vectorization) and Tony Hisgett (photography) (CC BY), Gabriela Palomo-Munoz (CC BY-NC); others CC0.

Chimpanzee
1.35 m
full standing height ยท measured standing
Human
1.70 m
full standing height
for scale
Tiger
0.91 m
at the shoulder ยท measured standing
Tale of the tape
Body mass
45 kg
๐Ÿ’ Chimpanzee ยท COMBINE
129 kg
๐Ÿ… Tiger ยท COMBINE
Shoulder height
no figure yet
๐Ÿ’ Chimpanzee
0.91 m
๐Ÿ… Tiger
Body length
0.87 m
๐Ÿ’ Chimpanzee ยท COMBINE
2.31 m
๐Ÿ… Tiger ยท COMBINE
Top speed
no figure yet
๐Ÿ’ Chimpanzee
54 km/h
๐Ÿ… Tiger
Bite force
1,511 N
๐Ÿ’ Chimpanzee
1,525 N
๐Ÿ… Tiger
Maximum lifespan
74 yr
๐Ÿ’ Chimpanzee ยท COMBINE
26 yr
๐Ÿ… Tiger ยท COMBINE

Bars are sized against the larger of the two figures. Bite force figures come from individual studies and vary a lot between sources.

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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).