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Coyote outweighs Eastern cottontail 9.4× — 11.1 kg against 1.2 kg. Both figures are averages across males and females.

Tale of the tape

Body mass

11 kg

🐺 Coyote · COMBINE

1.18 kg

🐇 Eastern cottontail · COMBINE

Shoulder height

0.52 m

🐺 Coyote

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🐇 Eastern cottontail

Body length

0.91 m

🐺 Coyote · COMBINE

0.4 m

🐇 Eastern cottontail · COMBINE

Maximum lifespan

22 yr

🐺 Coyote · COMBINE

9.79 yr

🐇 Eastern cottontail · COMBINE

Bars are sized against the larger of the two figures.

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Shared ancestry

The closest group they share is Theria (subclass), home to 9,319 species.

We know what their shared ancestor was, but not when it lived — no dated family tree spans both of them yet.