🦫
Canadian beaver
Castor canadensis
Mammals · Least concern
vs
🐺
Grey wolf
Canis lupus
Carnivores · Least concern
One clip names both of them
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Grey wolf outweighs Canadian beaver 1.5× — 29.2 kg against 19.9 kg.
Tale of the tape
Body mass
20 kg
🦫 Canadian beaver · COMBINE
29 kg
🐺 Grey wolf · COMBINE
Shoulder height
no figure yet
🦫 Canadian beaver
0.73 m
🐺 Grey wolf
Body length
0.78 m
🦫 Canadian beaver · COMBINE
1.27 m
🐺 Grey wolf · COMBINE
Top speed
no figure yet
🦫 Canadian beaver
62 km/h
🐺 Grey wolf
Bite force
no figure yet
🦫 Canadian beaver
593 N
🐺 Grey wolf
Maximum lifespan
23 yr
🦫 Canadian beaver · 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 Theria (subclass), home to 9,319 species.
They last shared an ancestor about 81 million years ago.
Estimates range from 74 to 89 million years; the figure above is the middle estimate.
About this estimate
Dates from Upham, Esselstyn & Jetz 2019, PLoS Biology 17:e3000494 (CC0).