🦊
Red fox
Vulpes vulpes
Carnivores · Least concern
vs
🦦
Eurasian otter
Lutra lutra
Carnivores · Near threatened
14 clips name both of them
864 views between them.
Eurasian otter outweighs Red fox 1.7× — 7.8 kg against 4.6 kg.
Tale of the tape
Body mass
4.58 kg
🦊 Red fox · COMBINE
7.81 kg
🦦 Eurasian otter · COMBINE
Shoulder height
0.41 m
🦊 Red fox
no figure yet
🦦 Eurasian otter
Body length
0.63 m
🦊 Red fox · COMBINE
0.75 m
🦦 Eurasian otter · COMBINE
Maximum lifespan
21 yr
🦊 Red fox · COMBINE
22 yr
🦦 Eurasian otter · 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 Caniformia (suborder), home to 469 species.
They last shared an ancestor about 33 million years ago.
Estimates range from 28 to 40 million years; the figure above is the middle estimate.
About this estimate
Dates from Upham, Esselstyn & Jetz 2019, PLoS Biology 17:e3000494 (CC0).