🐺
Coyote
Canis latrans
Carnivores · Least concern
vs
🐕
Dog
Canis familiaris
Carnivores
11 clips name both of them
7.7 million views between them.
Dog outweighs Coyote 3.6× — 40 kg against 11.1 kg.
Tale of the tape
Body mass
11 kg
🐺 Coyote · COMBINE
40 kg
🐕 Dog · AnAge
Shoulder height
0.52 m
🐺 Coyote
no figure yet
🐕 Dog
Body length
0.91 m
🐺 Coyote · COMBINE
no figure yet
🐕 Dog
Maximum lifespan
22 yr
🐺 Coyote · COMBINE
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 Canidae (family), home to 211 species.
They last shared an ancestor about 1.5 million years ago.
Estimates range from 1.0 to 2.0 million years; the figure above is the middle estimate.
About this estimate
Dates from Upham, Esselstyn & Jetz 2019, PLoS Biology 17:e3000494 (CC0).