🐺
African wild dog
Lycaon pictus
Carnivores · Endangered
vs
🦛
Hippopotamus
Hippopotamus amphibius
Mammals · Vulnerable
2 clips name both of them
6,529 views between them.
Hippopotamus outweighs African wild dog 110× — 2,640 kg against 24.3 kg.
To scale
Grid at 50 cm
50 cm
1 m
1.5 m
2 m
Silhouettes: PhyloPic (CC0).
African wild dog
0.69 m
at the shoulder
Human
1.70 m
full standing height
for scale
Hippopotamus
1.47 m
at the shoulder
Tale of the tape
Body mass
24 kg
🐺 African wild dog · COMBINE
2,640 kg
🦛 Hippopotamus · COMBINE
Shoulder height
0.69 m
🐺 African wild dog
1.47 m
🦛 Hippopotamus
Body length
1.02 m
🐺 African wild dog · COMBINE
5.05 m
🦛 Hippopotamus · COMBINE
Top speed
no figure yet
🐺 African wild dog
24 km/h
🦛 Hippopotamus
Maximum lifespan
17 yr
🐺 African wild dog · COMBINE
61 yr
🦛 Hippopotamus · COMBINE
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 Laurasiatheria (superorder), home to 4,193 species.
We know what their shared ancestor was, but not when it lived — no dated family tree spans both of them yet.