One clip names both of them

238,072 views between them.

Clouded leopard outweighs Serval 1.6× — 19.5 kg against 12 kg.

Tale of the tape

Body mass

20 kg

🐈 Clouded leopard · COMBINE

12 kg

🐱 Serval · COMBINE

Shoulder height

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🐈 Clouded leopard

0.6 m

🐱 Serval

Body length

0.95 m

🐈 Clouded leopard · COMBINE

0.92 m

🐱 Serval · COMBINE

Maximum lifespan

20 yr

🐈 Clouded leopard · COMBINE

23 yr

🐱 Serval · COMBINE

Bars are sized against the larger of the two figures.

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 Felidae (family), home to 91 species.

They last shared an ancestor about 6.8 million years ago.

Estimates range from 5.7 to 7.8 million years; the figure above is the middle estimate.

About this estimate

Dates from Upham, Esselstyn & Jetz 2019, PLoS Biology 17:e3000494 (CC0).