🦊
Red fox
Vulpes vulpes
Carnivores · Least concern
vs
🐈
Eurasian lynx
Lynx lynx
Carnivores · Least concern
2 clips name both of them
2,247 views between them.
Eurasian lynx outweighs Red fox 4.6× — 21.1 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
Eurasian lynx
0.63 m
at the shoulder
Tale of the tape
Body mass
4.58 kg
🦊 Red fox · COMBINE
21 kg
🐈 Eurasian lynx · COMBINE
Shoulder height
0.41 m
🦊 Red fox
0.63 m
🐈 Eurasian lynx
Body length
0.63 m
🦊 Red fox · COMBINE
1.08 m
🐈 Eurasian lynx · COMBINE
Maximum lifespan
21 yr
🦊 Red fox · COMBINE
27 yr
🐈 Eurasian lynx · 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 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).