🦅
Harpy eagle
Harpia harpyja
Birds · Vulnerable
vs
🐆
Jaguar
Panthera onca
Carnivores · Near threatened
One clip names both of them
191,282 views between them.
Jaguar outweighs Harpy eagle 17× — 81.2 kg against 4.8 kg. Both figures are averages across males and females.
Tale of the tape
Body mass
4.8 kg
🦅 Harpy eagle · AVONET
81 kg
🐆 Jaguar · COMBINE
Shoulder height
no figure yet
🦅 Harpy eagle
0.71 m
🐆 Jaguar
Body length
no figure yet
🦅 Harpy eagle
1.59 m
🐆 Jaguar · COMBINE
Bite force
no figure yet
🦅 Harpy eagle
1,014 N
🐆 Jaguar
Maximum lifespan
17 yr
🦅 Harpy eagle · AnAge
28 yr
🐆 Jaguar · 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 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.