🦊
Red fox
Vulpes vulpes
Carnivores · Least concern
vs
🦝
Raccoon
Procyon lotor
Carnivores · Least concern
2 clips name both of them
5.5 million views between them.
Level on mass: Red fox 4.6 kg, Raccoon 5.1 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
Raccoon
0.30 m
at the shoulder
Tale of the tape
Body mass
4.58 kg
🦊 Red fox · COMBINE
5.08 kg
🦝 Raccoon · COMBINE
Shoulder height
0.41 m
🦊 Red fox
0.3 m
🦝 Raccoon
Body length
0.63 m
🦊 Red fox · COMBINE
0.6 m
🦝 Raccoon · COMBINE
Maximum lifespan
21 yr
🦊 Red fox · COMBINE
21 yr
🦝 Raccoon · 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).