🦅
Golden eagle
Aquila chrysaetos
Birds · Least concern
vs
🐺
Grey wolf
Canis lupus
Carnivores · Least concern
4 clips name both of them
1.7 million views between them.
Grey wolf outweighs Golden eagle 6.9× — 29.2 kg against 4.2 kg. Both figures are averages across males and females.
To scale
Grid at 50 cm
50 cm
1 m
1.5 m
2 m
Silhouettes: PhyloPic (CC0).
Golden eagle
0.61 m
full standing height · measured standing
Human
1.70 m
full standing height
for scale
Grey wolf
0.73 m
at the shoulder · measured lying down
Tale of the tape
Body mass
4.25 kg
🦅 Golden eagle · AVONET
29 kg
🐺 Grey wolf · COMBINE
Shoulder height
no figure yet
🦅 Golden eagle
0.73 m
🐺 Grey wolf
Body length
no figure yet
🦅 Golden eagle
1.27 m
🐺 Grey wolf · COMBINE
Top speed
no figure yet
🦅 Golden eagle
62 km/h
🐺 Grey wolf
Bite force
no figure yet
🦅 Golden eagle
593 N
🐺 Grey wolf
Maximum lifespan
48 yr
🦅 Golden eagle · 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 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.