One clip names both of them

3,454 views between them.

Coyote outweighs Eastern cottontail 9.4× — 11.1 kg against 1.2 kg. Both figures are averages across males and females.

Tale of the tape

Body mass

11 kg

🐺 Coyote · COMBINE

1.18 kg

🐇 Eastern cottontail · COMBINE

Shoulder height

0.52 m

🐺 Coyote

no figure yet

🐇 Eastern cottontail

Body length

0.91 m

🐺 Coyote · COMBINE

0.4 m

🐇 Eastern cottontail · COMBINE

Maximum lifespan

22 yr

🐺 Coyote · COMBINE

9.79 yr

🐇 Eastern cottontail · 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 Theria (subclass), home to 9,319 species.

We know what their shared ancestor was, but not when it lived — no dated family tree spans both of them yet.