🦊
Red fox
Vulpes vulpes
Carnivores · Least concern
vs
🐆
Snow leopard
Panthera uncia
Carnivores · Vulnerable
One clip names both of them
704,796 views between them.
Snow leopard outweighs Red fox 10× — 47.8 kg against 4.6 kg.
To scale
Grid at 50 cm
50 cm
1 m
1.5 m
2 m
Silhouettes: PhyloPic — Gabriela Palomo-Munoz (CC BY-NC); others CC0.
Red fox
0.41 m
at the shoulder
Human
1.70 m
full standing height
for scale
Snow leopard
0.60 m
at the shoulder
Tale of the tape
Body mass
4.58 kg
🦊 Red fox · COMBINE
48 kg
🐆 Snow leopard · COMBINE
Shoulder height
0.41 m
🦊 Red fox
0.6 m
🐆 Snow leopard
Body length
0.63 m
🦊 Red fox · COMBINE
1.22 m
🐆 Snow leopard · COMBINE
Maximum lifespan
21 yr
🦊 Red fox · COMBINE
21 yr
🐆 Snow leopard · 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).