🐆
Leopard
Panthera pardus
Carnivores · Vulnerable
vs
🦩
Common ostrich
Struthio camelus
Birds · Least concern
One clip names both of them
854 views between them.
Common ostrich outweighs Leopard 2.1× — 111 kg against 53.1 kg. Both figures are averages across males and females.
To scale
Grid at 1 m
1 m
2 m
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Silhouettes: PhyloPic — Lukasiniho (CC BY-NC-SA), Matt Martyniuk (vectorized by T. Michael Keesey) (CC BY-SA); others CC0.
Leopard
0.72 m
at the shoulder
Human
1.70 m
full standing height
for scale
Common ostrich
2.75 m
full standing height
Tale of the tape
Body mass
53 kg
🐆 Leopard · COMBINE
111 kg
🦩 Common ostrich · AVONET
Shoulder height
0.72 m
🐆 Leopard
no figure yet
🦩 Common ostrich
Body length
1.64 m
🐆 Leopard · COMBINE
no figure yet
🦩 Common ostrich
Top speed
58 km/h
🐆 Leopard
no figure yet
🦩 Common ostrich
Bite force
467 N
🐆 Leopard
no figure yet
🦩 Common ostrich
Maximum lifespan
27 yr
🐆 Leopard · COMBINE
50 yr
🦩 Common ostrich · AnAge
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.