🐺
African wild dog
Lycaon pictus
Carnivores · Endangered
vs
🦏
White rhinoceros
Ceratotherium simum
Mammals · Near threatened
4 clips name both of them
9,064 views between them.
White rhinoceros outweighs African wild dog 92× — 2,230 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
White rhinoceros
1.78 m
at the shoulder
Tale of the tape
Body mass
24 kg
🐺 African wild dog · COMBINE
2,230 kg
🦏 White rhinoceros · COMBINE
Shoulder height
0.69 m
🐺 African wild dog
1.78 m
🦏 White rhinoceros
Body length
1.02 m
🐺 African wild dog · COMBINE
3.39 m
🦏 White rhinoceros · COMBINE
Top speed
no figure yet
🐺 African wild dog
24 km/h
🦏 White rhinoceros
Maximum lifespan
17 yr
🐺 African wild dog · COMBINE
50 yr
🦏 White rhinoceros · 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.
They last shared an ancestor about 64 million years ago.
Estimates range from 58 to 76 million years; the figure above is the middle estimate.
About this estimate
Dates from Upham, Esselstyn & Jetz 2019, PLoS Biology 17:e3000494 (CC0).