🐕
Dhole
Cuon alpinus
Carnivores · Endangered
vs
🐕
Dog
Canis familiaris
Carnivores
One clip names both of them
50,575 views between them.
Dog outweighs Dhole 2.5× — 40 kg against 15.8 kg.
Tale of the tape
Body mass
16 kg
🐕 Dhole · COMBINE
40 kg
🐕 Dog · AnAge
Shoulder height
0.46 m
🐕 Dhole
no figure yet
🐕 Dog
Body length
1.06 m
🐕 Dhole · COMBINE
no figure yet
🐕 Dog
Maximum lifespan
16 yr
🐕 Dhole · 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 3.5 million years ago.
Estimates range from 2.3 to 4.3 million years; the figure above is the middle estimate.
About this estimate
Dates from Upham, Esselstyn & Jetz 2019, PLoS Biology 17:e3000494 (CC0).