🐭
Guinea pig
Cavia porcellus
Mammals · Not evaluated
vs
🐆
Jaguar
Panthera onca
Carnivores · Near threatened
One clip names both of them
121,319 views between them.
Jaguar outweighs Guinea pig 110× — 81.2 kg against 0.7 kg.
Tale of the tape
Body mass
0.73 kg
🐭 Guinea pig · AnAge
81 kg
🐆 Jaguar · COMBINE
Shoulder height
no figure yet
🐭 Guinea pig
0.71 m
🐆 Jaguar
Body length
no figure yet
🐭 Guinea pig
1.59 m
🐆 Jaguar · COMBINE
Bite force
no figure yet
🐭 Guinea pig
1,014 N
🐆 Jaguar
Maximum lifespan
12 yr
🐭 Guinea pig · AnAge
28 yr
🐆 Jaguar · 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).