🐺
African wild dog
Lycaon pictus
Carnivores · Endangered
vs
🦓
Plains zebra
Equus quagga
Mammals · Near threatened
One clip names both of them
4,450 views between them.
Plains zebra outweighs African wild dog 12× — 290 kg against 24.3 kg.
Tale of the tape
Body mass
24 kg
🐺 African wild dog · COMBINE
290 kg
🦓 Plains zebra · COMBINE
Shoulder height
0.69 m
🐺 African wild dog
no figure yet
🦓 Plains zebra
Body length
1.02 m
🐺 African wild dog · COMBINE
2.54 m
🦓 Plains zebra · COMBINE
Maximum lifespan
17 yr
🐺 African wild dog · COMBINE
40 yr
🦓 Plains zebra · 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).