🐆
Leopard
Panthera pardus
Carnivores · Vulnerable
vs
🐾
Meerkat
Suricata suricatta
Carnivores · Least concern
One clip names both of them
6,074 views between them.
Leopard outweighs Meerkat 68× — 53.1 kg against 0.8 kg.
Tale of the tape
Body mass
53 kg
🐆 Leopard · COMBINE
0.78 kg
🐾 Meerkat · COMBINE
Shoulder height
0.72 m
🐆 Leopard
no figure yet
🐾 Meerkat
Body length
1.64 m
🐆 Leopard · COMBINE
0.32 m
🐾 Meerkat · COMBINE
Top speed
58 km/h
🐆 Leopard
no figure yet
🐾 Meerkat
Bite force
467 N
🐆 Leopard
no figure yet
🐾 Meerkat
Maximum lifespan
27 yr
🐆 Leopard · COMBINE
21 yr
🐾 Meerkat · 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 Feliformia (suborder), home to 257 species.
They last shared an ancestor about 22 million years ago.
Estimates range from 20 to 25 million years; the figure above is the middle estimate.
About this estimate
Dates from Upham, Esselstyn & Jetz 2019, PLoS Biology 17:e3000494 (CC0).