🐼
Giant panda
Ailuropoda melanoleuca
Carnivores · Vulnerable
vs
🐾
Red Panda
Ailurus fulgens
Carnivores · Endangered
7 clips name both of them
509,998 views between them.
Giant panda outweighs Red Panda 25× — 118 kg against 4.7 kg.
Tale of the tape
Body mass
118 kg
🐼 Giant panda · COMBINE
4.75 kg
🐾 Red Panda · COMBINE
Shoulder height
0.68 m
🐼 Giant panda
no figure yet
🐾 Red Panda
Body length
1.42 m
🐼 Giant panda · COMBINE
0.61 m
🐾 Red Panda · COMBINE
Maximum lifespan
37 yr
🐼 Giant panda · COMBINE
19 yr
🐾 Red Panda · 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 28 million years ago.
Estimates range from 24 to 34 million years; the figure above is the middle estimate.
About this estimate
Dates from Upham, Esselstyn & Jetz 2019, PLoS Biology 17:e3000494 (CC0).