🐾
Cougar
Puma concolor
Carnivores · Least concern
vs
🐈
Eurasian lynx
Lynx lynx
Carnivores · Least concern
One clip names both of them
2,203 views between them.
Cougar outweighs Eurasian lynx 2.3× — 48 kg against 21.1 kg.
To scale
Grid at 50 cm
50 cm
1 m
1.5 m
2 m
Silhouettes: PhyloPic (CC0).
Cougar
0.76 m
at the shoulder
Human
1.70 m
full standing height
for scale
Eurasian lynx
0.63 m
at the shoulder
Tale of the tape
Body mass
48 kg
🐾 Cougar · COMBINE
21 kg
🐈 Eurasian lynx · COMBINE
Shoulder height
0.76 m
🐾 Cougar
0.63 m
🐈 Eurasian lynx
Body length
1.68 m
🐾 Cougar · COMBINE
1.08 m
🐈 Eurasian lynx · COMBINE
Maximum lifespan
24 yr
🐾 Cougar · COMBINE
27 yr
🐈 Eurasian lynx · 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 4.6 million years ago.
Estimates range from 3.9 to 6.2 million years; the figure above is the middle estimate.
About this estimate
Dates from Upham, Esselstyn & Jetz 2019, PLoS Biology 17:e3000494 (CC0).