One clip names both of them

8,593 views between them.

Dog outweighs Golden jackal 3.6× — 40 kg against 11 kg.

Tale of the tape

Body mass

40 kg

🐕 Dog · AnAge

11 kg

🐾 Golden jackal · COMBINE

Body length

no figure yet

🐕 Dog

0.94 m

🐾 Golden jackal · COMBINE

Maximum lifespan

27 yr

🐕 Dog · AnAge

19 yr

🐾 Golden jackal · 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 1.2 million years ago.

Estimates range from 0.8 to 1.6 million years; the figure above is the middle estimate.

About this estimate

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