🐆
Cheetah
Acinonyx jubatus
Carnivores · Vulnerable
vs
🐿️
Eastern gray squirrel
Sciurus carolinensis
Mammals · Least concern
One clip names both of them
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Cheetah outweighs Eastern gray squirrel 94× — 50.6 kg against 0.5 kg. Both figures are averages across males and females.
Tale of the tape
Body mass
51 kg
🐆 Cheetah · COMBINE
0.54 kg
🐿️ Eastern gray squirrel · COMBINE
Shoulder height
0.8 m
🐆 Cheetah
no figure yet
🐿️ Eastern gray squirrel
Body length
1.49 m
🐆 Cheetah · COMBINE
0.32 m
🐿️ Eastern gray squirrel · COMBINE
Top speed
104 km/h
🐆 Cheetah
no figure yet
🐿️ Eastern gray squirrel
Bite force
472 N
🐆 Cheetah
no figure yet
🐿️ Eastern gray squirrel
Maximum lifespan
20 yr
🐆 Cheetah · COMBINE
24 yr
🐿️ Eastern gray squirrel · 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 Theria (subclass), home to 9,319 species.
They last shared an ancestor about 81 million years ago.
Estimates range from 74 to 89 million years; the figure above is the middle estimate.
About this estimate
Dates from Upham, Esselstyn & Jetz 2019, PLoS Biology 17:e3000494 (CC0).