🐺
African wild dog
Lycaon pictus
Carnivores · Endangered
vs
🐆
Snow leopard
Panthera uncia
Carnivores · Vulnerable
One clip names both of them
5 views between them.
Snow leopard outweighs African wild dog 2.0× — 47.8 kg against 24.3 kg.
To scale
Grid at 50 cm
50 cm
1 m
1.5 m
2 m
Silhouettes: PhyloPic — Gabriela Palomo-Munoz (CC BY-NC); others CC0.
African wild dog
0.69 m
at the shoulder
Human
1.70 m
full standing height
for scale
Snow leopard
0.60 m
at the shoulder
Tale of the tape
Body mass
24 kg
🐺 African wild dog · COMBINE
48 kg
🐆 Snow leopard · COMBINE
Shoulder height
0.69 m
🐺 African wild dog
0.6 m
🐆 Snow leopard
Body length
1.02 m
🐺 African wild dog · COMBINE
1.22 m
🐆 Snow leopard · COMBINE
Maximum lifespan
17 yr
🐺 African wild dog · COMBINE
21 yr
🐆 Snow leopard · 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 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).