🦊
Red fox
Vulpes vulpes
Carnivores · Least concern
vs
🐎
Horse
Equus ferus caballus
Mammals
One clip names both of them
423,420 views between them.
Horse outweighs Red fox 65× — 300 kg against 4.6 kg.
To scale
Grid at 50 cm
50 cm
1 m
1.5 m
2 m
Silhouettes: PhyloPic (CC0).
Red fox
0.41 m
at the shoulder
Human
1.70 m
full standing height
for scale
Horse
1.61 m
at the shoulder
Tale of the tape
Body mass
4.58 kg
🦊 Red fox · COMBINE
300 kg
🐎 Horse · AnAge
Shoulder height
0.41 m
🦊 Red fox
1.61 m
🐎 Horse
Body length
0.63 m
🦊 Red fox · COMBINE
no figure yet
🐎 Horse
Top speed
no figure yet
🦊 Red fox
64 km/h
🐎 Horse
Maximum lifespan
21 yr
🦊 Red fox · COMBINE
57 yr
🐎 Horse · 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 Laurasiatheria (superorder), home to 4,193 species.
They last shared an ancestor about 64 million years ago.
Estimates range from 58 to 76 million years; the figure above is the middle estimate.
About this estimate
Dates from Upham, Esselstyn & Jetz 2019, PLoS Biology 17:e3000494 (CC0).