One clip names both of them

387,086 views between them.

Dog outweighs Fennec fox 33× — 40 kg against 1.2 kg.

Tale of the tape

Body mass

40 kg

🐕 Dog · AnAge

1.21 kg

🦊 Fennec fox · COMBINE

Shoulder height

no figure yet

🐕 Dog

0.2 m

🦊 Fennec fox

Body length

no figure yet

🐕 Dog

0.39 m

🦊 Fennec fox · COMBINE

Maximum lifespan

27 yr

🐕 Dog · AnAge

16 yr

🦊 Fennec 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).