🐎
Horse
Equus ferus caballus
Mammals
vs
🐅
Tiger
Panthera tigris
Carnivores · Endangered
One clip names both of them
819 views between them.
Horse outweighs Tiger 2.3× — 300 kg against 129 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.
Horse
1.61 m
at the shoulder
Human
1.70 m
full standing height
for scale
Tiger
0.91 m
at the shoulder · measured standing
Tale of the tape
Body mass
300 kg
🐎 Horse · AnAge
129 kg
🐅 Tiger · COMBINE
Shoulder height
1.61 m
🐎 Horse
0.91 m
🐅 Tiger
Body length
no figure yet
🐎 Horse
2.31 m
🐅 Tiger · COMBINE
Top speed
64 km/h
🐎 Horse
54 km/h
🐅 Tiger
Bite force
no figure yet
🐎 Horse
1,525 N
🐅 Tiger
Maximum lifespan
57 yr
🐎 Horse · 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 Laurasiatheria (superorder), home to 4,193 species.
They last shared an ancestor about 64 million years ago.
Estimates range from 58 to 76 million years; the figure above is the middle estimate.
About this estimate
Dates from Upham, Esselstyn & Jetz 2019, PLoS Biology 17:e3000494 (CC0).