🐆
Snow leopard
Panthera uncia
Carnivores · Vulnerable
vs
🐅
Tiger
Panthera tigris
Carnivores · Endangered
2 clips name both of them
462,644 views between them.
Tiger outweighs Snow leopard 2.7× — 129 kg against 47.8 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.
Snow leopard
0.60 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
48 kg
🐆 Snow leopard · COMBINE
129 kg
🐅 Tiger · COMBINE
Shoulder height
0.6 m
🐆 Snow leopard
0.91 m
🐅 Tiger
Body length
1.22 m
🐆 Snow leopard · COMBINE
2.31 m
🐅 Tiger · COMBINE
Top speed
no figure yet
🐆 Snow leopard
54 km/h
🐅 Tiger
Bite force
no figure yet
🐆 Snow leopard
1,525 N
🐅 Tiger
Maximum lifespan
21 yr
🐆 Snow leopard · 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 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).