🐺
African wild dog
Lycaon pictus
Carnivores · Endangered
vs
🐅
Tiger
Panthera tigris
Carnivores · Endangered
5 clips name both of them
5.8 million views between them.
Tiger outweighs African wild dog 5.3× — 129 kg against 24.3 kg. Both figures are averages across males and females.
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
Tiger
0.91 m
at the shoulder · measured standing
Tale of the tape
Body mass
24 kg
🐺 African wild dog · COMBINE
129 kg
🐅 Tiger · COMBINE
Shoulder height
0.69 m
🐺 African wild dog
0.91 m
🐅 Tiger
Body length
1.02 m
🐺 African wild dog · COMBINE
2.31 m
🐅 Tiger · COMBINE
Top speed
no figure yet
🐺 African wild dog
54 km/h
🐅 Tiger
Bite force
no figure yet
🐺 African wild dog
1,525 N
🐅 Tiger
Maximum lifespan
17 yr
🐺 African wild dog · COMBINE
26 yr
🐅 Tiger · 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).