🐺
African wild dog
Lycaon pictus
Carnivores · Endangered
vs
🐦
Griffon Vulture
Gyps fulvus
Birds · Least concern
One clip names both of them
230 views between them.
African wild dog outweighs Griffon Vulture 3.3× — 24.3 kg against 7.4 kg.
Tale of the tape
Body mass
24 kg
🐺 African wild dog · COMBINE
7.44 kg
🐦 Griffon Vulture · AVONET
Shoulder height
0.69 m
🐺 African wild dog
no figure yet
🐦 Griffon Vulture
Body length
1.02 m
🐺 African wild dog · COMBINE
no figure yet
🐦 Griffon Vulture
Maximum lifespan
17 yr
🐺 African wild dog · COMBINE
41 yr
🐦 Griffon Vulture · 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.