🐺
African wild dog
Lycaon pictus
Carnivores · Endangered
vs
🐊
Nile crocodile
Crocodylus niloticus
Reptiles · Least concern
One clip names both of them
45,076 views between them.
Nile crocodile outweighs African wild dog 3.9× — 94.2 kg against 24.3 kg.
Tale of the tape
Body mass
24 kg
🐺 African wild dog · COMBINE
94 kg
🐊 Nile crocodile · AnAge
Shoulder height
0.69 m
🐺 African wild dog
no figure yet
🐊 Nile crocodile
Body length
1.02 m
🐺 African wild dog · COMBINE
5 m
🐊 Nile crocodile · ReptTraits
Top speed
no figure yet
🐺 African wild dog
9.86 km/h
🐊 Nile crocodile
Bite force
no figure yet
🐺 African wild dog
3,043 N
🐊 Nile crocodile
Maximum lifespan
17 yr
🐺 African wild dog · COMBINE
56 yr
🐊 Nile crocodile · AnAge
Bars are sized against the larger of the two figures. Bite force figures come from individual studies and vary a lot between sources.
Animals caught on camera
Real footage of the animals on this site — hunting, fighting, and getting on with it.
Shared ancestry
The closest group they share is Tetrapoda (superclass), home to 51,389 species.
We know what their shared ancestor was, but not when it lived — no dated family tree spans both of them yet.