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Dhole
Cuon alpinus
Carnivores ยท Endangered
vs
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Tiger
Panthera tigris
Carnivores ยท Endangered

2 clips name both of them

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Tiger outweighs Dhole 8.2ร— โ€” 129 kg against 15.8 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 โ€” AnAgnosticGod (vectorized by T. Michael Keesey) (CC BY-NC-SA), Gabriela Palomo-Munoz (CC BY-NC); others CC0.

Dhole
0.46 m
at the shoulder
Human
1.70 m
full standing height
for scale
Tiger
0.91 m
at the shoulder ยท measured standing
Tale of the tape
Body mass
16 kg
๐Ÿ• Dhole ยท COMBINE
129 kg
๐Ÿ… Tiger ยท COMBINE
Shoulder height
0.46 m
๐Ÿ• Dhole
0.91 m
๐Ÿ… Tiger
Body length
1.06 m
๐Ÿ• Dhole ยท COMBINE
2.31 m
๐Ÿ… Tiger ยท COMBINE
Top speed
no figure yet
๐Ÿ• Dhole
54 km/h
๐Ÿ… Tiger
Bite force
no figure yet
๐Ÿ• Dhole
1,525 N
๐Ÿ… Tiger
Maximum lifespan
16 yr
๐Ÿ• Dhole ยท COMBINE
26 yr
๐Ÿ… Tiger ยท COMBINE

Bars are sized against the larger of the two figures. Bite force figures come from individual studies and vary a lot between sources.

Animals caught on camera

Real footage of the animals on this site โ€” hunting, fighting, and getting on with it.

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Shared ancestry

The closest group they share is Carnivora (order), home to 728 species.

They last shared an ancestor about 39 million years ago.

Estimates range from 32 to 45 million years; the figure above is the middle estimate.

About this estimate

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