🐺
Coyote
Canis latrans
Carnivores · Least concern
vs
🦅
Golden eagle
Aquila chrysaetos
Birds · Least concern
One clip names both of them
1,947 views between them.
Coyote outweighs Golden eagle 2.6× — 11.1 kg against 4.2 kg. Both figures are averages across males and females.
To scale
Grid at 50 cm
50 cm
1 m
1.5 m
2 m
Silhouettes: PhyloPic (CC0).
Coyote
0.52 m
at the shoulder
Human
1.70 m
full standing height
for scale
Golden eagle
0.61 m
full standing height · measured standing
Tale of the tape
Body mass
11 kg
🐺 Coyote · COMBINE
4.25 kg
🦅 Golden eagle · AVONET
Shoulder height
0.52 m
🐺 Coyote
no figure yet
🦅 Golden eagle
Body length
0.91 m
🐺 Coyote · COMBINE
no figure yet
🦅 Golden eagle
Maximum lifespan
22 yr
🐺 Coyote · COMBINE
48 yr
🦅 Golden eagle · 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.