🦊
Red fox
Vulpes vulpes
Carnivores · Least concern
vs
🐺
Grey wolf
Canis lupus
Carnivores · Least concern
One clip names both of them
277,220 views between them.
Grey wolf outweighs Red fox 6.4× — 29.2 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
Grey wolf
0.73 m
at the shoulder · measured lying down
Tale of the tape
Body mass
4.58 kg
🦊 Red fox · COMBINE
29 kg
🐺 Grey wolf · COMBINE
Shoulder height
0.41 m
🦊 Red fox
0.73 m
🐺 Grey wolf
Body length
0.63 m
🦊 Red fox · COMBINE
1.27 m
🐺 Grey wolf · COMBINE
Top speed
no figure yet
🦊 Red fox
62 km/h
🐺 Grey wolf
Bite force
no figure yet
🦊 Red fox
593 N
🐺 Grey wolf
Maximum lifespan
21 yr
🦊 Red fox · COMBINE
29 yr
🐺 Grey wolf · COMBINE
Bars are sized against the larger of the two figures. Bite force figures come from individual studies and vary a lot between sources.
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 Canidae (family), home to 211 species.
They last shared an ancestor about 9.2 million years ago.
Estimates range from 7.2 to 10 million years; the figure above is the middle estimate.
About this estimate
Dates from Upham, Esselstyn & Jetz 2019, PLoS Biology 17:e3000494 (CC0).