🐒
Chimpanzee
Pan troglodytes
Primates · Endangered
vs
🐆
Big cats
Pantherinae
Mammals
average across the group
One clip names both of them
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Big cats outweigh Chimpanzee 2.0× — 92 kg against 45 kg.
To scale
Grid at 50 cm
50 cm
1 m
1.5 m
2 m
Silhouettes: PhyloPic — T. Michael Keesey (vectorization) and Tony Hisgett (photography) (CC BY); others CC0.
Chimpanzee
1.35 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
45 kg
🐒 Chimpanzee · COMBINE
92 kg
🐆 Big cats · group average
Shoulder height
no figure yet
🐒 Chimpanzee
0.82 m
🐆 Big cats · group average
Body length
0.87 m
🐒 Chimpanzee · COMBINE
1.79 m
🐆 Big cats · group average
Top speed
no figure yet
🐒 Chimpanzee
56 km/h
🐆 Big cats · group average
Bite force
1,511 N
🐒 Chimpanzee
1,194 N
🐆 Big cats · group average
Maximum lifespan
74 yr
🐒 Chimpanzee · 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.
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Shared ancestry
The closest group they share is Theria (subclass), home to 9,319 species.
We know what their shared ancestor was, but not when it lived — no dated family tree spans both of them yet.