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African wild dog
Lycaon pictus
Carnivores · Endangered
vs
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Blue wildebeest
Connochaetes taurinus
Mammals · Least concern
3 clips name both of them
18,807 views between them.
Blue wildebeest outweighs African wild dog 7.4× — 181 kg against 24.3 kg.
Tale of the tape
Body mass
24 kg
🐺 African wild dog · COMBINE
181 kg
🐃 Blue wildebeest · COMBINE
Shoulder height
0.69 m
🐺 African wild dog
no figure yet
🐃 Blue wildebeest
Body length
1.02 m
🐺 African wild dog · COMBINE
2.21 m
🐃 Blue wildebeest · COMBINE
Maximum lifespan
17 yr
🐺 African wild dog · COMBINE
25 yr
🐃 Blue wildebeest · 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).