🦊
Arctic fox
Vulpes lagopus
Carnivores · Least concern
vs
🐈
Cat
Felis catus
Carnivores
One clip names both of them
5.8 million views between them.
Level on mass: Arctic fox 3.6 kg, Cat 3.9 kg.
Tale of the tape
Body mass
3.6 kg
🦊 Arctic fox · COMBINE
3.9 kg
🐈 Cat · AnAge
Shoulder height
no figure yet
🦊 Arctic fox
0.26 m
🐈 Cat
Body length
0.62 m
🦊 Arctic fox · COMBINE
no figure yet
🐈 Cat
Maximum lifespan
16 yr
🦊 Arctic fox · COMBINE
30 yr
🐈 Cat · AnAge
Bars are sized against the larger of the two figures.
镜头下的动物
站内动物的实拍影像——捕猎、打斗，还有各自过日子的样子。
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).