🐕
Dog
Canis familiaris
Carnivores
vs
🐺
Spotted hyena
Crocuta crocuta
Carnivores · Least concern
2 clips name both of them
130,061 views between them.
Spotted hyena outweighs Dog 1.6× — 63 kg against 40 kg.
Tale of the tape
Body mass
40 kg
🐕 Dog · AnAge
63 kg
🐺 Spotted hyena · COMBINE
Shoulder height
no figure yet
🐕 Dog
0.81 m
🐺 Spotted hyena
Body length
no figure yet
🐕 Dog
1.38 m
🐺 Spotted hyena · COMBINE
Top speed
no figure yet
🐕 Dog
60 km/h
🐺 Spotted hyena
Bite force
no figure yet
🐕 Dog
773 N
🐺 Spotted hyena
Maximum lifespan
27 yr
🐕 Dog · AnAge
41 yr
🐺 Spotted hyena · 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 — hunting, fighting, and getting on with it.
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).