🐾
Cougar
Puma concolor
Carnivores · Least concern
vs
🦊
Red fox
Vulpes vulpes
Carnivores · Least concern
One clip names both of them
631 views between them.
Cougar outweighs Red fox 10× — 48 kg against 4.6 kg.
To scale
Grid at 50 cm
50 cm
1 m
1.5 m
2 m
Silhouettes: PhyloPic (CC0).
Cougar
0.76 m
at the shoulder
Human
1.70 m
full standing height
for scale
Red fox
0.41 m
at the shoulder
Tale of the tape
Body mass
48 kg
🐾 Cougar · COMBINE
4.58 kg
🦊 Red fox · COMBINE
Shoulder height
0.76 m
🐾 Cougar
0.41 m
🦊 Red fox
Body length
1.68 m
🐾 Cougar · COMBINE
0.63 m
🦊 Red fox · COMBINE
Maximum lifespan
24 yr
🐾 Cougar · COMBINE
21 yr
🦊 Red fox · 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 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).