🐕
Dhole
Cuon alpinus
Carnivores · Endangered
vs
🐆
Big cats
Pantherinae
Mammals
average across the group
2 clips name both of them
155,623 views between them.
Big cats outweigh Dhole 5.8× — 92 kg against 15.8 kg.
To scale
Grid at 50 cm
50 cm
1 m
1.5 m
2 m
Silhouettes: PhyloPic — AnAgnosticGod (vectorized by T. Michael Keesey) (CC BY-NC-SA); others CC0.
Dhole
0.46 m
at the shoulder
Human
1.70 m
full standing height
for scale
Big cats
0.82 m
at the shoulder
Tale of the tape
Body mass
16 kg
🐕 Dhole · COMBINE
92 kg
🐆 Big cats · group average
Shoulder height
0.46 m
🐕 Dhole
0.82 m
🐆 Big cats · group average
Body length
1.06 m
🐕 Dhole · COMBINE
1.79 m
🐆 Big cats · group average
Top speed
no figure yet
🐕 Dhole
56 km/h
🐆 Big cats · group average
Bite force
no figure yet
🐕 Dhole
1,194 N
🐆 Big cats · group average
Maximum lifespan
16 yr
🐕 Dhole · COMBINE
27 yr
🐆 Big cats · group average
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 Carnivora (order), home to 728 species.
We know what their shared ancestor was, but not when it lived — no dated family tree spans both of them yet.