2 clips name both of them

7 million views between them.

Dog outweighs Mute Swan 3.7× — 40 kg against 10.7 kg. Both figures are averages across males and females.

Tale of the tape

Body mass

40 kg

🐕 Dog · AnAge

11 kg

🐦 Mute Swan · AVONET

Maximum lifespan

27 yr

🐕 Dog · AnAge

40 yr

🐦 Mute Swan · AnAge

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 Tetrapoda (superclass), home to 51,389 species.

We know what their shared ancestor was, but not when it lived — no dated family tree spans both of them yet.