🐾
Red Panda
Ailurus fulgens
Carnivores · Endangered
vs
🐅
Tiger
Panthera tigris
Carnivores · Endangered
2 clips name both of them
975,199 views between them.
Tiger outweighs Red Panda 27× — 129 kg against 4.7 kg. Both figures are averages across males and females.
Tale of the tape
Body mass
4.75 kg
🐾 Red Panda · COMBINE
129 kg
🐅 Tiger · COMBINE
Shoulder height
no figure yet
🐾 Red Panda
0.91 m
🐅 Tiger
Body length
0.61 m
🐾 Red Panda · COMBINE
2.31 m
🐅 Tiger · COMBINE
Top speed
no figure yet
🐾 Red Panda
54 km/h
🐅 Tiger
Bite force
no figure yet
🐾 Red Panda
1,525 N
🐅 Tiger
Maximum lifespan
19 yr
🐾 Red Panda · 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 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).