🐅
Tiger
Panthera tigris
Carnivores · Endangered
vs
🦈
Tiger shark
Galeocerdo cuvier
Sharks & rays · Near threatened
6 clips name both of them
33,065 views between them.
Tiger shark outweighs Tiger 3.4× — 444 kg against 129 kg. Both figures are averages across males and females.
Tale of the tape
Body mass
129 kg
🐅 Tiger · COMBINE
444 kg
🦈 Tiger shark · AnAge
Shoulder height
0.91 m
🐅 Tiger
no figure yet
🦈 Tiger shark
Body length
2.31 m
🐅 Tiger · COMBINE
5 m
🦈 Tiger shark · FishBase
Top speed
54 km/h
🐅 Tiger
no figure yet
🦈 Tiger shark
Bite force
1,525 N
🐅 Tiger
no figure yet
🦈 Tiger shark
Maximum lifespan
26 yr
🐅 Tiger · COMBINE
50 yr
🦈 Tiger shark · AnAge
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.