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Jungle cat outweighs Cat 2.6× — 10 kg against 3.9 kg.

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Body mass

3.9 kg

🐈 Cat · AnAge

10 kg

🐈 Jungle cat · COMBINE

Shoulder height

0.26 m

🐈 Cat

no figure yet

🐈 Jungle cat

Body length

no figure yet

🐈 Cat

0.73 m

🐈 Jungle cat · COMBINE

Maximum lifespan

30 yr

🐈 Cat · AnAge

20 yr

🐈 Jungle cat · COMBINE

Bars are sized against the larger of the two figures.

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Shared ancestry

The closest group they share is Felis (genus), home to 29 species.

They last shared an ancestor about 2.2 million years ago.

Estimates range from 1.3 to 2.7 million years; the figure above is the middle estimate.

About this estimate

Dates from Upham, Esselstyn & Jetz 2019, PLoS Biology 17:e3000494 (CC0).