🧍
Human
Homo sapiens
Primates · Least concern
vs
🐆
Leopard
Panthera pardus
Carnivores · Vulnerable
6 clips name both of them
220,072 views between them.
Human outweighs Leopard 1.2× — 62 kg against 53.1 kg.
To scale
Grid at 50 cm
50 cm
1 m
1.5 m
2 m
Silhouettes: PhyloPic — Lukasiniho (CC BY-NC-SA); others CC0.
Human
1.70 m
full standing height
Leopard
0.72 m
at the shoulder
Tale of the tape
Body mass
62 kg
🧍 Human · AnAge
53 kg
🐆 Leopard · COMBINE
Shoulder height
no figure yet
🧍 Human
0.72 m
🐆 Leopard
Body length
no figure yet
🧍 Human
1.64 m
🐆 Leopard · COMBINE
Top speed
38 km/h
🧍 Human
58 km/h
🐆 Leopard
Bite force
843 N
🧍 Human
467 N
🐆 Leopard
Maximum lifespan
123 yr
🧍 Human · AnAge
27 yr
🐆 Leopard · 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 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).