🧍
Human
Homo sapiens
Primates · Least concern
vs
🐺
Grey wolf
Canis lupus
Carnivores · Least concern
7 clips name both of them
28 million views between them.
Human outweighs Grey wolf 2.1× — 62 kg against 29.2 kg.
To scale
Grid at 50 cm
50 cm
1 m
1.5 m
2 m
Silhouettes: PhyloPic (CC0).
Human
1.70 m
full standing height
Grey wolf
0.73 m
at the shoulder · measured lying down
Tale of the tape
Body mass
62 kg
🧍 Human · AnAge
29 kg
🐺 Grey wolf · COMBINE
Shoulder height
no figure yet
🧍 Human
0.73 m
🐺 Grey wolf
Body length
no figure yet
🧍 Human
1.27 m
🐺 Grey wolf · COMBINE
Top speed
38 km/h
🧍 Human
62 km/h
🐺 Grey wolf
Bite force
843 N
🧍 Human
593 N
🐺 Grey wolf
Maximum lifespan
123 yr
🧍 Human · AnAge
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 Theria (subclass), home to 9,319 species.
They last shared an ancestor about 81 million years ago.
Estimates range from 74 to 89 million years; the figure above is the middle estimate.
About this estimate
Dates from Upham, Esselstyn & Jetz 2019, PLoS Biology 17:e3000494 (CC0).