🐆
Cheetah
Acinonyx jubatus
Carnivores · Vulnerable
vs
🐕
Dog
Canis familiaris
Carnivores
2 clips name both of them
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Cheetah outweighs Dog 1.3× — 50.6 kg against 40 kg. Both figures are averages across males and females.
Tale of the tape
Body mass
51 kg
🐆 Cheetah · COMBINE
40 kg
🐕 Dog · AnAge
Shoulder height
0.8 m
🐆 Cheetah
no figure yet
🐕 Dog
Body length
1.49 m
🐆 Cheetah · COMBINE
no figure yet
🐕 Dog
Top speed
104 km/h
🐆 Cheetah
no figure yet
🐕 Dog
Bite force
472 N
🐆 Cheetah
no figure yet
🐕 Dog
Maximum lifespan
20 yr
🐆 Cheetah · COMBINE
27 yr
🐕 Dog · AnAge
Bars are sized against the larger of the two figures. Bite force figures come from individual studies and vary a lot between sources.
Животные, попавшие в кадр
Настоящие видео животных с этого сайта: как они охотятся, драются и просто живут своей жизнью.
Shared ancestry
The closest group they share is Carnivora (order), home to 728 species.
They last shared an ancestor about 39 million years ago.
Estimates range from 32 to 45 million years; the figure above is the middle estimate.
About this estimate
Dates from Upham, Esselstyn & Jetz 2019, PLoS Biology 17:e3000494 (CC0).