🦊
Red fox
Vulpes vulpes
Carnivores · Least concern
vs
🧍
Human
Homo sapiens
Primates · Least concern
4 clips name both of them
36,801 views between them.
Human outweighs Red fox 14× — 62 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
Tale of the tape
Body mass
4.58 kg
🦊 Red fox · COMBINE
62 kg
🧍 Human · AnAge
Shoulder height
0.41 m
🦊 Red fox
no figure yet
🧍 Human
Body length
0.63 m
🦊 Red fox · COMBINE
no figure yet
🧍 Human
Top speed
no figure yet
🦊 Red fox
38 km/h
🧍 Human
Bite force
no figure yet
🦊 Red fox
843 N
🧍 Human
Maximum lifespan
21 yr
🦊 Red fox · COMBINE
123 yr
🧍 Human · AnAge
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 Theria (subclass), home to 9,319 species.
They last shared an ancestor about 81 million years ago.
Estimates range from 74 to 89 million years; the figure above is the middle estimate.
About this estimate
Dates from Upham, Esselstyn & Jetz 2019, PLoS Biology 17:e3000494 (CC0).