🐈
Fossa
Cryptoprocta ferox
Carnivores · Vulnerable
vs
🐒
Ring-tailed lemur
Lemur catta
Primates · Endangered
3 clips name both of them
520,396 views between them.
Fossa outweighs Ring-tailed lemur 3.7× — 9.5 kg against 2.6 kg.
Tale of the tape
Body mass
9.5 kg
🐈 Fossa · COMBINE
2.56 kg
🐒 Ring-tailed lemur · COMBINE
Shoulder height
0.37 m
🐈 Fossa
no figure yet
🐒 Ring-tailed lemur
Body length
0.76 m
🐈 Fossa · COMBINE
0.42 m
🐒 Ring-tailed lemur · COMBINE
Maximum lifespan
23 yr
🐈 Fossa · COMBINE
37 yr
🐒 Ring-tailed lemur · COMBINE
Bars are sized against the larger of the two figures.
Animals caught on camera
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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).