🦈 Great white shark vs Tiger 🐅
The great white shark is about twice as long as the tiger. The great white shark weighs about 15 times as much as the tiger.
| Row | 🦈 Great white shark | 🐅 Tiger |
|---|---|---|
| Top speed We don't have a checked number for the tiger yet. | 35 mph56 km/h1 | no checked number yet |
| Weight The great white shark weighs about 15 times as much as the tiger. | 2 tons1.8 tonnes2 | 249 to 375 lb113 to 170 kg3 |
| Lives The great white shark usually lives about 3 times as long as the tiger. | 30 to 70 years30 to 70 years2 | 15 years15 years3 |
| Eats Both eat meat. | seals, sea lions, fish and dead whales | deer and wild pigs |
| Lives in They live in different kinds of places, so they would hardly ever meet. | cool coastal seas around the world | forests and grasslands of Asia, from India to the far east of Russia |
Which one? Great white shark or tiger
🏁 Who would win the race?
We don't have a checked top speed for the tiger yet, so there is no race.
We only race. Real animals mostly avoid each other. A race is the only fair contest: who reaches the tree first, by top speed.
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Where these numbers come from
- NOAA Science On a Sphere, checked 30 October 2026.
- NOAA Fisheries, checked 30 October 2026.
- US Fish and Wildlife Service, Federal Register 2010 (tiger delisting petition 90-day finding), checked 30 October 2026.