🐺
African wild dog
Lycaon pictus
Carnivores · Endangered
vs
🐦
Western Barn Owl
Tyto alba
Birds · Least concern
One clip names both of them
57 views between them.
African wild dog outweighs Western Barn Owl 60× — 24.3 kg against 0.4 kg.
Tale of the tape
Body mass
24 kg
🐺 African wild dog · COMBINE
0.4 kg
🐦 Western Barn Owl · AVONET
Shoulder height
0.69 m
🐺 African wild dog
no figure yet
🐦 Western Barn Owl
Body length
1.02 m
🐺 African wild dog · COMBINE
no figure yet
🐦 Western Barn Owl
Maximum lifespan
17 yr
🐺 African wild dog · COMBINE
34 yr
🐦 Western Barn Owl · 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 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.