🐆
Leopard
Panthera pardus
Carnivores · Vulnerable
vs
🐋
Blue whale
Balaenoptera musculus
Marine mammals · Endangered
One clip names both of them
4,022 views between them.
Blue whale outweighs Leopard 2810× — 149,000 kg against 53.1 kg.
Tale of the tape
Body mass
53 kg
🐆 Leopard · COMBINE
149,000 kg
🐋 Blue whale · COMBINE
Shoulder height
0.72 m
🐆 Leopard
no figure yet
🐋 Blue whale
Body length
1.64 m
🐆 Leopard · COMBINE
30 m
🐋 Blue whale · COMBINE
Top speed
58 km/h
🐆 Leopard
no figure yet
🐋 Blue whale
Bite force
467 N
🐆 Leopard
no figure yet
🐋 Blue whale
Maximum lifespan
27 yr
🐆 Leopard · COMBINE
110 yr
🐋 Blue whale · 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 Laurasiatheria (superorder), home to 4,193 species.
They last shared an ancestor about 64 million years ago.
Estimates range from 58 to 76 million years; the figure above is the middle estimate.
About this estimate
Dates from Upham, Esselstyn & Jetz 2019, PLoS Biology 17:e3000494 (CC0).