🐬
Common bottlenose dolphin
Tursiops truncatus
Marine mammals · Least concern
vs
🐆
Big cats
Pantherinae
Mammals
average across the group
One clip names both of them
303 views between them.
Common bottlenose dolphin outweighs Big cats 2.5× — 230 kg against 92 kg.
Tale of the tape
Body mass
230 kg
🐬 Common bottlenose dolphin · COMBINE
92 kg
🐆 Big cats · group average
Shoulder height
no figure yet
🐬 Common bottlenose dolphin
0.82 m
🐆 Big cats · group average
Body length
3.63 m
🐬 Common bottlenose dolphin · COMBINE
1.79 m
🐆 Big cats · group average
Top speed
no figure yet
🐬 Common bottlenose dolphin
56 km/h
🐆 Big cats · group average
Bite force
no figure yet
🐬 Common bottlenose dolphin
1,194 N
🐆 Big cats · group average
Maximum lifespan
53 yr
🐬 Common bottlenose dolphin · COMBINE
27 yr
🐆 Big cats · group average
Bars are sized against the larger of the two figures. Bite force figures come from individual studies and vary a lot between sources.
Dieren voor de camera
Echte beelden van de dieren op deze site — hoe ze jagen, vechten en gewoon hun eigen gang gaan.
Shared ancestry
The closest group they share is Laurasiatheria (superorder), home to 4,193 species.
We know what their shared ancestor was, but not when it lived — no dated family tree spans both of them yet.