🐆
Leopard
Panthera pardus
Carnivores · Vulnerable
vs
🦦
Eurasian otter
Lutra lutra
Carnivores · Near threatened
One clip names both of them
2 views between them.
Leopard outweighs Eurasian otter 6.8× — 53.1 kg against 7.8 kg.
Tale of the tape
Body mass
53 kg
🐆 Leopard · COMBINE
7.81 kg
🦦 Eurasian otter · COMBINE
Shoulder height
0.72 m
🐆 Leopard
no figure yet
🦦 Eurasian otter
Body length
1.64 m
🐆 Leopard · COMBINE
0.75 m
🦦 Eurasian otter · COMBINE
Top speed
58 km/h
🐆 Leopard
no figure yet
🦦 Eurasian otter
Bite force
467 N
🐆 Leopard
no figure yet
🦦 Eurasian otter
Maximum lifespan
27 yr
🐆 Leopard · COMBINE
22 yr
🦦 Eurasian otter · 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 Carnivora (order), home to 728 species.
They last shared an ancestor about 39 million years ago.
Estimates range from 32 to 45 million years; the figure above is the middle estimate.
About this estimate
Dates from Upham, Esselstyn & Jetz 2019, PLoS Biology 17:e3000494 (CC0).