🦊
Red fox
Vulpes vulpes
Carnivores · Least concern
vs
🐦
Mute Swan
Cygnus olor
Birds · Least concern
One clip names both of them
35 views between them.
Mute Swan outweighs Red fox 2.3× — 10.7 kg against 4.6 kg. Both figures are averages across males and females.
Tale of the tape
Body mass
4.58 kg
🦊 Red fox · COMBINE
11 kg
🐦 Mute Swan · AVONET
Shoulder height
0.41 m
🦊 Red fox
no figure yet
🐦 Mute Swan
Body length
0.63 m
🦊 Red fox · COMBINE
no figure yet
🐦 Mute Swan
Maximum lifespan
21 yr
🦊 Red fox · COMBINE
40 yr
🐦 Mute Swan · AnAge
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 Tetrapoda (superclass), home to 51,389 species.
We know what their shared ancestor was, but not when it lived — no dated family tree spans both of them yet.