🦉
Eurasian Eagle-owl
Bubo bubo
Birds · Least concern
vs
🦊
Red fox
Vulpes vulpes
Carnivores · Least concern
One clip names both of them
26,621 views between them.
Red fox outweighs Eurasian Eagle-owl 1.7× — 4.6 kg against 2.7 kg. Both figures are averages across males and females.
Tale of the tape
Body mass
2.67 kg
🦉 Eurasian Eagle-owl · AVONET
4.58 kg
🦊 Red fox · COMBINE
Shoulder height
no figure yet
🦉 Eurasian Eagle-owl
0.41 m
🦊 Red fox
Body length
no figure yet
🦉 Eurasian Eagle-owl
0.63 m
🦊 Red fox · COMBINE
Maximum lifespan
68 yr
🦉 Eurasian Eagle-owl · AnAge
21 yr
🦊 Red fox · 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 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.