🐈
Cat
Felis catus
Carnivores
vs
🐈
Jungle cat
Felis chaus
Carnivores · Least concern
One clip names both of them
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Jungle cat outweighs Cat 2.6× — 10 kg against 3.9 kg.
Tale of the tape
Body mass
3.9 kg
🐈 Cat · AnAge
10 kg
🐈 Jungle cat · COMBINE
Shoulder height
0.26 m
🐈 Cat
no figure yet
🐈 Jungle cat
Body length
no figure yet
🐈 Cat
0.73 m
🐈 Jungle cat · COMBINE
Maximum lifespan
30 yr
🐈 Cat · AnAge
20 yr
🐈 Jungle cat · COMBINE
Bars are sized against the larger of the two figures.
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Shared ancestry
The closest group they share is Felis (genus), home to 29 species.
They last shared an ancestor about 2.2 million years ago.
Estimates range from 1.3 to 2.7 million years; the figure above is the middle estimate.
About this estimate
Dates from Upham, Esselstyn & Jetz 2019, PLoS Biology 17:e3000494 (CC0).