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Lion outweighs Tiger 1.2ร โ 149 kg against 129 kg. Both figures are averages across males and females.
Grid at 50 cm
Silhouettes: PhyloPic โ Lukasiniho (CC BY-NC-SA), Gabriela Palomo-Munoz (CC BY-NC); others CC0.
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 โ hunting, fighting, and getting on with it.
The closest group they share is Panthera (genus), home to 20 species.
They last shared an ancestor about 3.3 million years ago.
Estimates range from 2.6 to 4.5 million years; the figure above is the middle estimate.
About this estimate
Dates from Upham, Esselstyn & Jetz 2019, PLoS Biology 17:e3000494 (CC0).