🦊
Red fox
Vulpes vulpes
Carnivores · Least concern
vs
🐆
Leopard
Panthera pardus
Carnivores · Vulnerable
One clip names both of them
5,512 views between them.
Leopard outweighs Red fox 12× — 53.1 kg against 4.6 kg.
To scale
Grid at 50 cm
50 cm
1 m
1.5 m
2 m
Silhouettes: PhyloPic — Lukasiniho (CC BY-NC-SA); others CC0.
Red fox
0.41 m
at the shoulder
Human
1.70 m
full standing height
for scale
Leopard
0.72 m
at the shoulder
Tale of the tape
Body mass
4.58 kg
🦊 Red fox · COMBINE
53 kg
🐆 Leopard · COMBINE
Shoulder height
0.41 m
🦊 Red fox
0.72 m
🐆 Leopard
Body length
0.63 m
🦊 Red fox · COMBINE
1.64 m
🐆 Leopard · COMBINE
Top speed
no figure yet
🦊 Red fox
58 km/h
🐆 Leopard
Bite force
no figure yet
🦊 Red fox
467 N
🐆 Leopard
Maximum lifespan
21 yr
🦊 Red fox · COMBINE
27 yr
🐆 Leopard · 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 Carnivora (order), home to 728 species.
They last shared an ancestor about 39 million years ago.
Estimates range from 32 to 45 million years; the figure above is the middle estimate.
About this estimate
Dates from Upham, Esselstyn & Jetz 2019, PLoS Biology 17:e3000494 (CC0).