🦎
American alligator
Alligator mississippiensis
Reptiles · Least concern
vs
🐕
Dog
Canis familiaris
Carnivores
2 clips name both of them
2,315 views between them.
American alligator outweighs Dog 3.8× — 150 kg against 40 kg. Both figures are averages across males and females.
Tale of the tape
Body mass
150 kg
🦎 American alligator · AnAge
40 kg
🐕 Dog · AnAge
Body length
4.6 m
🦎 American alligator · ReptTraits
no figure yet
🐕 Dog
Maximum lifespan
77 yr
🦎 American alligator · AnAge
27 yr
🐕 Dog · 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.