🦅
Golden eagle
Aquila chrysaetos
Birds · Least concern
vs
🐆
Big cats
Pantherinae
Mammals
average across the group
One clip names both of them
7,410 views between them.
Big cats outweigh Golden eagle 22× — 92 kg against 4.2 kg. Both figures are averages across males and females.
To scale
Grid at 50 cm
50 cm
1 m
1.5 m
2 m
Silhouettes: PhyloPic (CC0).
Golden eagle
0.61 m
full standing height · measured standing
Human
1.70 m
full standing height
for scale
Big cats
0.82 m
at the shoulder
Tale of the tape
Body mass
4.25 kg
🦅 Golden eagle · AVONET
92 kg
🐆 Big cats · group average
Shoulder height
no figure yet
🦅 Golden eagle
0.82 m
🐆 Big cats · group average
Body length
no figure yet
🦅 Golden eagle
1.79 m
🐆 Big cats · group average
Top speed
no figure yet
🦅 Golden eagle
56 km/h
🐆 Big cats · group average
Bite force
no figure yet
🦅 Golden eagle
1,194 N
🐆 Big cats · group average
Maximum lifespan
48 yr
🦅 Golden eagle · AnAge
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.
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Shared ancestry
The closest group they share is Tetrapoda (superclass), home to 51,389 species.
We know what their shared ancestor was, but not when it lived — no dated family tree spans both of them yet.