🐕
Dog
Canis familiaris
Carnivores
vs
🐺
Grey wolf
Canis lupus
Carnivores · Least concern
27 clips name both of them
86 million views between them.
Dog outweighs Grey wolf 1.4× — 40 kg against 29.2 kg.
Tale of the tape
Body mass
40 kg
🐕 Dog · AnAge
29 kg
🐺 Grey wolf · COMBINE
Shoulder height
no figure yet
🐕 Dog
0.73 m
🐺 Grey wolf
Body length
no figure yet
🐕 Dog
1.27 m
🐺 Grey wolf · COMBINE
Top speed
no figure yet
🐕 Dog
62 km/h
🐺 Grey wolf
Bite force
no figure yet
🐕 Dog
593 N
🐺 Grey wolf
Maximum lifespan
27 yr
🐕 Dog · AnAge
29 yr
🐺 Grey wolf · 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 Canidae (family), home to 211 species.
They last shared an ancestor about 0.0 million years ago.
Estimates range from 0.0 to 0.0 million years; the figure above is the middle estimate.
About this estimate
Dates from Upham, Esselstyn & Jetz 2019, PLoS Biology 17:e3000494 (CC0).