🐆
Jaguar
Panthera onca
Carnivores · Near threatened
vs
🐈
Ocelot
Leopardus pardalis
Carnivores · Least concern
One clip names both of them
894 views between them.
Jaguar outweighs Ocelot 7.7× — 81.2 kg against 10.5 kg.
To scale
Grid at 50 cm
50 cm
1 m
1.5 m
2 m
Silhouettes: PhyloPic — Lukasiniho (CC BY-NC-SA), Gabriela Palomo-Munoz (CC BY-NC); others CC0.
Jaguar
0.71 m
at the shoulder
Human
1.70 m
full standing height
for scale
Ocelot
0.45 m
at the shoulder
Tale of the tape
Body mass
81 kg
🐆 Jaguar · COMBINE
11 kg
🐈 Ocelot · COMBINE
Shoulder height
0.71 m
🐆 Jaguar
0.45 m
🐈 Ocelot
Body length
1.59 m
🐆 Jaguar · COMBINE
0.87 m
🐈 Ocelot · COMBINE
Bite force
1,014 N
🐆 Jaguar
no figure yet
🐈 Ocelot
Maximum lifespan
28 yr
🐆 Jaguar · COMBINE
28 yr
🐈 Ocelot · 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 Felidae (family), home to 91 species.
They last shared an ancestor about 6.8 million years ago.
Estimates range from 5.7 to 7.8 million years; the figure above is the middle estimate.
About this estimate
Dates from Upham, Esselstyn & Jetz 2019, PLoS Biology 17:e3000494 (CC0).