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African wild dog
Lycaon pictus
Carnivores · Endangered
vs
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Dog
Canis familiaris
Carnivores
5 clips name both of them
10,216 views between them.
Dog outweighs African wild dog 1.6× — 40 kg against 24.3 kg.
Tale of the tape
Body mass
24 kg
🐺 African wild dog · COMBINE
40 kg
🐕 Dog · AnAge
Shoulder height
0.69 m
🐺 African wild dog
no figure yet
🐕 Dog
Body length
1.02 m
🐺 African wild dog · COMBINE
no figure yet
🐕 Dog
Maximum lifespan
17 yr
🐺 African wild dog · COMBINE
27 yr
🐕 Dog · AnAge
Bars are sized against the larger of the two figures.
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 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).