🐟
Goldfish
Carassius auratus
Fish · Least concern
vs
🐅
Tiger
Panthera tigris
Carnivores · Endangered
One clip names both of them
367 views between them.
Tiger outweighs Goldfish 81× — 129 kg against 1.6 kg. Both figures are averages across males and females.
Tale of the tape
Body mass
1.6 kg
🐟 Goldfish · FishBase
129 kg
🐅 Tiger · COMBINE
Shoulder height
no figure yet
🐟 Goldfish
0.91 m
🐅 Tiger
Body length
0.1 m
🐟 Goldfish · FishBase
2.31 m
🐅 Tiger · COMBINE
Top speed
no figure yet
🐟 Goldfish
54 km/h
🐅 Tiger
Bite force
no figure yet
🐟 Goldfish
1,525 N
🐅 Tiger
Maximum lifespan
41 yr
🐟 Goldfish · AnAge
26 yr
🐅 Tiger · COMBINE
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 Gnathostomata (superclass), home to 90,802 species.
We know what their shared ancestor was, but not when it lived — no dated family tree spans both of them yet.