🐃
European bison
Bison bonasus
Mammals · Near threatened
vs
🐺
Grey wolf
Canis lupus
Carnivores · Least concern
One clip names both of them
717 views between them.
European bison outweighs Grey wolf 21× — 625 kg against 29.2 kg.
To scale
Grid at 50 cm
50 cm
1 m
1.5 m
2 m
Silhouettes: PhyloPic (CC0).
European bison
1.72 m
at the shoulder
Human
1.70 m
full standing height
for scale
Grey wolf
0.73 m
at the shoulder · measured lying down
Tale of the tape
Body mass
625 kg
🐃 European bison · COMBINE
29 kg
🐺 Grey wolf · COMBINE
Shoulder height
1.72 m
🐃 European bison
0.73 m
🐺 Grey wolf
Body length
2.9 m
🐃 European bison · COMBINE
1.27 m
🐺 Grey wolf · COMBINE
Top speed
no figure yet
🐃 European bison
62 km/h
🐺 Grey wolf
Bite force
no figure yet
🐃 European bison
593 N
🐺 Grey wolf
Maximum lifespan
33 yr
🐃 European bison · COMBINE
29 yr
🐺 Grey wolf · 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 Laurasiatheria (superorder), home to 4,193 species.
They last shared an ancestor about 64 million years ago.
Estimates range from 58 to 76 million years; the figure above is the middle estimate.
About this estimate
Dates from Upham, Esselstyn & Jetz 2019, PLoS Biology 17:e3000494 (CC0).