🐃
Domestic yak
Bos grunniens
Mammals
vs
🐆
Big cats
Pantherinae
Mammals
average across the group
One clip names both of them
434,955 views between them.
Domestic yak outweighs Big cats 7.3× — 667 kg against 92 kg.
To scale
Grid at 50 cm
50 cm
1 m
1.5 m
2 m
Silhouettes: PhyloPic — Zimices (CC BY); others CC0.
Domestic yak
1.20 m
at the shoulder
Human
1.70 m
full standing height
for scale
Big cats
0.82 m
at the shoulder
Tale of the tape
Body mass
667 kg
🐃 Domestic yak · AnAge
92 kg
🐆 Big cats · group average
Shoulder height
1.2 m
🐃 Domestic yak
0.82 m
🐆 Big cats · group average
Body length
no figure yet
🐃 Domestic yak
1.79 m
🐆 Big cats · group average
Top speed
no figure yet
🐃 Domestic yak
56 km/h
🐆 Big cats · group average
Bite force
no figure yet
🐃 Domestic yak
1,194 N
🐆 Big cats · group average
Maximum lifespan
26 yr
🐃 Domestic yak · AnAge
27 yr
🐆 Big cats · group average
Bars are sized against the larger of the two figures. Bite force figures come from individual studies and vary a lot between sources.
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Shared ancestry
The closest group they share is Laurasiatheria (superorder), home to 4,193 species.
We know what their shared ancestor was, but not when it lived — no dated family tree spans both of them yet.