🦊
Fennec fox
Vulpes zerda
Carnivores · Least concern
vs
🦊
Red fox
Vulpes vulpes
Carnivores · Least concern
One clip names both of them
670,665 views between them.
Red fox outweighs Fennec fox 3.8× — 4.6 kg against 1.2 kg.
To scale
Grid at 50 cm
50 cm
1 m
1.5 m
2 m
Silhouettes: PhyloPic (CC0).
Fennec fox
0.20 m
at the shoulder
Human
1.70 m
full standing height
for scale
Red fox
0.41 m
at the shoulder
Tale of the tape
Body mass
1.21 kg
🦊 Fennec fox · COMBINE
4.58 kg
🦊 Red fox · COMBINE
Shoulder height
0.2 m
🦊 Fennec fox
0.41 m
🦊 Red fox
Body length
0.39 m
🦊 Fennec fox · COMBINE
0.63 m
🦊 Red fox · COMBINE
Maximum lifespan
16 yr
🦊 Fennec fox · COMBINE
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 Canidae (family), home to 211 species.
They last shared an ancestor about 3.3 million years ago.
Estimates range from 2.6 to 4.5 million years; the figure above is the middle estimate.
About this estimate
Dates from Upham, Esselstyn & Jetz 2019, PLoS Biology 17:e3000494 (CC0).