๐บ
African wild dog
Lycaon pictus
Carnivores ยท Endangered
vs
๐
Dhole
Cuon alpinus
Carnivores ยท Endangered
10 clips name both of them
6.7 million views between them.
African wild dog outweighs Dhole 1.5ร โ 24.3 kg against 15.8 kg.
To scale
Grid at 50 cm
50 cm
1 m
1.5 m
2 m
Silhouettes: PhyloPic โ AnAgnosticGod (vectorized by T. Michael Keesey) (CC BY-NC-SA); others CC0.
African wild dog
0.69 m
at the shoulder
Human
1.70 m
full standing height
for scale
Dhole
0.46 m
at the shoulder
Tale of the tape
Body mass
24 kg
๐บ African wild dog ยท COMBINE
16 kg
๐ Dhole ยท COMBINE
Shoulder height
0.69 m
๐บ African wild dog
0.46 m
๐ Dhole
Body length
1.02 m
๐บ African wild dog ยท COMBINE
1.06 m
๐ Dhole ยท COMBINE
Maximum lifespan
17 yr
๐บ African wild dog ยท COMBINE
16 yr
๐ Dhole ยท COMBINE
Bars are sized against the larger of the two figures.
Animals caught on camera
Real footage of the animals on this site โ hunting, fighting, and getting on with it.
Shared ancestry
The closest group they share is Canidae (family), home to 211 species.
They last shared an ancestor about 4.3 million years ago.
Estimates range from 3.1 to 5.7 million years; the figure above is the middle estimate.
About this estimate
Dates from Upham, Esselstyn & Jetz 2019, PLoS Biology 17:e3000494 (CC0).