🐕
Dog
Canis familiaris
Carnivores
vs
🐾
Meerkat
Suricata suricatta
Carnivores · Least concern
One clip names both of them
273,196 views between them.
Dog outweighs Meerkat 52× — 40 kg against 0.8 kg.
Tale of the tape
Body mass
40 kg
🐕 Dog · AnAge
0.78 kg
🐾 Meerkat · COMBINE
Body length
no figure yet
🐕 Dog
0.32 m
🐾 Meerkat · COMBINE
Maximum lifespan
27 yr
🐕 Dog · AnAge
21 yr
🐾 Meerkat · 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 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).