🐈
Cat
Felis catus
Carnivores
vs
🐆
Jaguar
Panthera onca
Carnivores · Near threatened
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Jaguar outweighs Cat 21× — 81.2 kg against 3.9 kg.
To scale
Grid at 50 cm
50 cm
1 m
1.5 m
2 m
Silhouettes: PhyloPic — Lukasiniho (CC BY-NC-SA); others CC0.
Cat
0.26 m
at the shoulder
Human
1.70 m
full standing height
for scale
Jaguar
0.71 m
at the shoulder
Tale of the tape
Body mass
3.9 kg
🐈 Cat · AnAge
81 kg
🐆 Jaguar · COMBINE
Shoulder height
0.26 m
🐈 Cat
0.71 m
🐆 Jaguar
Body length
no figure yet
🐈 Cat
1.59 m
🐆 Jaguar · COMBINE
Bite force
no figure yet
🐈 Cat
1,014 N
🐆 Jaguar
Maximum lifespan
30 yr
🐈 Cat · AnAge
28 yr
🐆 Jaguar · COMBINE
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 Felidae (family), home to 91 species.
They last shared an ancestor about 6.8 million years ago.
Estimates range from 5.7 to 7.8 million years; the figure above is the middle estimate.
About this estimate
Dates from Upham, Esselstyn & Jetz 2019, PLoS Biology 17:e3000494 (CC0).