🐈
Fishing cat
Prionailurus viverrinus
Carnivores · Vulnerable
vs
🧍
Human
Homo sapiens
Primates · Least concern
One clip names both of them
1,485 views between them.
Human outweighs Fishing cat 5.8× — 62 kg against 10.7 kg.
Tale of the tape
Body mass
11 kg
🐈 Fishing cat · COMBINE
62 kg
🧍 Human · AnAge
Body length
0.82 m
🐈 Fishing cat · COMBINE
no figure yet
🧍 Human
Top speed
no figure yet
🐈 Fishing cat
38 km/h
🧍 Human
Bite force
no figure yet
🐈 Fishing cat
843 N
🧍 Human
Maximum lifespan
17 yr
🐈 Fishing cat · COMBINE
123 yr
🧍 Human · AnAge
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 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).