🐈
Cat
Felis catus
Carnivores
vs
🦡
Eurasian badger
Meles meles
Carnivores · Least concern
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Eurasian badger outweighs Cat 3.0× — 11.9 kg against 3.9 kg.
Tale of the tape
Body mass
3.9 kg
🐈 Cat · AnAge
12 kg
🦡 Eurasian badger · COMBINE
Shoulder height
0.26 m
🐈 Cat
no figure yet
🦡 Eurasian badger
Body length
no figure yet
🐈 Cat
0.8 m
🦡 Eurasian badger · COMBINE
Maximum lifespan
30 yr
🐈 Cat · AnAge
19 yr
🦡 Eurasian badger · COMBINE
Bars are sized against the larger of the two figures.
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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).