🐈
Cat
Felis catus
Carnivores
vs
🐈
Eurasian lynx
Lynx lynx
Carnivores · Least concern
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Eurasian lynx outweighs Cat 5.4× — 21.1 kg against 3.9 kg.
To scale
Grid at 50 cm
50 cm
1 m
1.5 m
2 m
Silhouettes: PhyloPic (CC0).
Cat
0.26 m
at the shoulder
Human
1.70 m
full standing height
for scale
Eurasian lynx
0.63 m
at the shoulder
Tale of the tape
Body mass
3.9 kg
🐈 Cat · AnAge
21 kg
🐈 Eurasian lynx · COMBINE
Shoulder height
0.26 m
🐈 Cat
0.63 m
🐈 Eurasian lynx
Body length
no figure yet
🐈 Cat
1.08 m
🐈 Eurasian lynx · COMBINE
Maximum lifespan
30 yr
🐈 Cat · AnAge
27 yr
🐈 Eurasian lynx · COMBINE
Bars are sized against the larger of the two figures.
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Shared ancestry
The closest group they share is Felidae (family), home to 91 species.
They last shared an ancestor about 5.2 million years ago.
Estimates range from 4.5 to 6.4 million years; the figure above is the middle estimate.
About this estimate
Dates from Upham, Esselstyn & Jetz 2019, PLoS Biology 17:e3000494 (CC0).