🦊
Red fox
Vulpes vulpes
Carnivores · Least concern
vs
🦁
Lion
Panthera leo
Carnivores · Vulnerable
One clip names both of them
1,177 views between them.
Lion outweighs Red fox 33× — 149 kg against 4.6 kg. Both figures are averages across males and females.
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
Lion
1.15 m
at the shoulder
Tale of the tape
Body mass
4.58 kg
🦊 Red fox · COMBINE
149 kg
🦁 Lion · COMBINE
Shoulder height
0.41 m
🦊 Red fox
1.15 m
🦁 Lion
Body length
0.63 m
🦊 Red fox · COMBINE
2.17 m
🦁 Lion · COMBINE
Top speed
no figure yet
🦊 Red fox
55 km/h
🦁 Lion
Bite force
no figure yet
🦊 Red fox
1,768 N
🦁 Lion
Maximum lifespan
21 yr
🦊 Red fox · COMBINE
30 yr
🦁 Lion · 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).