3 clips name both of them

171 views between them.

Coyote outweighs Gray fox 2.6× — 11.1 kg against 4.2 kg.

Tale of the tape

Body mass

11 kg

🐺 Coyote · COMBINE

4.22 kg

🐺 Gray fox · COMBINE

Shoulder height

0.52 m

🐺 Coyote

no figure yet

🐺 Gray fox

Body length

0.91 m

🐺 Coyote · COMBINE

0.67 m

🐺 Gray fox · COMBINE

Maximum lifespan

22 yr

🐺 Coyote · COMBINE

16 yr

🐺 Gray 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 Canidae (family), home to 211 species.

They last shared an ancestor about 9.2 million years ago.

Estimates range from 7.2 to 10 million years; the figure above is the middle estimate.

About this estimate

Dates from Upham, Esselstyn & Jetz 2019, PLoS Biology 17:e3000494 (CC0).