🐾
Golden jackal
Canis aureus
Carnivores · Least concern
vs
🐆
Leopard
Panthera pardus
Carnivores · Vulnerable
2 clips name both of them
26,987 views between them.
Leopard outweighs Golden jackal 4.8× — 53.1 kg against 11 kg.
Tale of the tape
Body mass
11 kg
🐾 Golden jackal · COMBINE
53 kg
🐆 Leopard · COMBINE
Shoulder height
no figure yet
🐾 Golden jackal
0.72 m
🐆 Leopard
Body length
0.94 m
🐾 Golden jackal · COMBINE
1.64 m
🐆 Leopard · COMBINE
Top speed
no figure yet
🐾 Golden jackal
58 km/h
🐆 Leopard
Bite force
no figure yet
🐾 Golden jackal
467 N
🐆 Leopard
Maximum lifespan
19 yr
🐾 Golden jackal · COMBINE
27 yr
🐆 Leopard · 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 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).