🦈
Sharks
Selachimorpha
Fish
average across the group
vs
🐅
Tiger
Panthera tigris
Carnivores · Endangered
6 clips name both of them
34,586 views between them.
Sharks outweigh Tiger 42× — 5,366 kg against 129 kg. Both figures are averages across males and females.
Tale of the tape
Body mass
5,366 kg
🦈 Sharks · group average
129 kg
🐅 Tiger · COMBINE
Shoulder height
no figure yet
🦈 Sharks
0.91 m
🐅 Tiger
Body length
6.28 m
🦈 Sharks · group average
2.31 m
🐅 Tiger · COMBINE
Top speed
no figure yet
🦈 Sharks
54 km/h
🐅 Tiger
Bite force
no figure yet
🦈 Sharks
1,525 N
🐅 Tiger
Maximum lifespan
46 yr
🦈 Sharks · group average
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 Gnathostomata (superclass), home to 90,802 species.
We know what their shared ancestor was, but not when it lived — no dated family tree spans both of them yet.