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African wild dog
Lycaon pictus
Carnivores · Endangered
vs
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Spotted hyena
Crocuta crocuta
Carnivores · Least concern
13 clips name both of them
441,886 views between them.
Spotted hyena outweighs African wild dog 2.6× — 63 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
Spotted hyena
0.81 m
at the shoulder
Tale of the tape
Body mass
24 kg
🐺 African wild dog · COMBINE
63 kg
🐺 Spotted hyena · COMBINE
Shoulder height
0.69 m
🐺 African wild dog
0.81 m
🐺 Spotted hyena
Body length
1.02 m
🐺 African wild dog · COMBINE
1.38 m
🐺 Spotted hyena · COMBINE
Top speed
no figure yet
🐺 African wild dog
60 km/h
🐺 Spotted hyena
Bite force
no figure yet
🐺 African wild dog
773 N
🐺 Spotted hyena
Maximum lifespan
17 yr
🐺 African wild dog · COMBINE
41 yr
🐺 Spotted hyena · COMBINE
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 Carnivora (order), home to 728 species.
They last shared an ancestor about 39 million years ago.
Estimates range from 32 to 45 million years; the figure above is the middle estimate.
About this estimate
Dates from Upham, Esselstyn & Jetz 2019, PLoS Biology 17:e3000494 (CC0).