🦅
Golden eagle
Aquila chrysaetos
Birds · Least concern
vs
🐆
Snow leopard
Panthera uncia
Carnivores · Vulnerable
One clip names both of them
7,410 views between them.
Snow leopard outweighs Golden eagle 11× — 47.8 kg against 4.2 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 — Gabriela Palomo-Munoz (CC BY-NC); others CC0.
Golden eagle
0.61 m
full standing height · measured standing
Human
1.70 m
full standing height
for scale
Snow leopard
0.60 m
at the shoulder
Tale of the tape
Body mass
4.25 kg
🦅 Golden eagle · AVONET
48 kg
🐆 Snow leopard · COMBINE
Shoulder height
no figure yet
🦅 Golden eagle
0.6 m
🐆 Snow leopard
Body length
no figure yet
🦅 Golden eagle
1.22 m
🐆 Snow leopard · COMBINE
Maximum lifespan
48 yr
🦅 Golden eagle · AnAge
21 yr
🐆 Snow leopard · 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 Tetrapoda (superclass), home to 51,389 species.
We know what their shared ancestor was, but not when it lived — no dated family tree spans both of them yet.