🐈
Eurasian lynx
Lynx lynx
Carnivores · Least concern
vs
🐅
Tiger
Panthera tigris
Carnivores · Endangered
One clip names both of them
2,950 views between them.
Tiger outweighs Eurasian lynx 6.1× — 129 kg against 21.1 kg. Both figures are averages across males and females.
To scale
Grid at 50 cm
50 cm
1 m
1.5 m
2 m
Silhouettes: PhyloPic — Gabriela Palomo-Munoz (CC BY-NC); others CC0.
Eurasian lynx
0.63 m
at the shoulder
Human
1.70 m
full standing height
for scale
Tiger
0.91 m
at the shoulder · measured standing
Tale of the tape
Body mass
21 kg
🐈 Eurasian lynx · COMBINE
129 kg
🐅 Tiger · COMBINE
Shoulder height
0.63 m
🐈 Eurasian lynx
0.91 m
🐅 Tiger
Body length
1.08 m
🐈 Eurasian lynx · COMBINE
2.31 m
🐅 Tiger · COMBINE
Top speed
no figure yet
🐈 Eurasian lynx
54 km/h
🐅 Tiger
Bite force
no figure yet
🐈 Eurasian lynx
1,525 N
🐅 Tiger
Maximum lifespan
27 yr
🐈 Eurasian lynx · COMBINE
26 yr
🐅 Tiger · 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 Felidae (family), home to 91 species.
They last shared an ancestor about 6.8 million years ago.
Estimates range from 5.7 to 7.8 million years; the figure above is the middle estimate.
About this estimate
Dates from Upham, Esselstyn & Jetz 2019, PLoS Biology 17:e3000494 (CC0).