🐺
Spotted hyena
Crocuta crocuta
Carnivores · Least concern
vs
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Golden jackal
Canis aureus
Carnivores · Least concern
One clip names both of them
36,548 views between them.
Spotted hyena outweighs Golden jackal 5.7× — 63 kg against 11 kg.
Tale of the tape
Body mass
63 kg
🐺 Spotted hyena · COMBINE
11 kg
🐾 Golden jackal · COMBINE
Shoulder height
0.81 m
🐺 Spotted hyena
no figure yet
🐾 Golden jackal
Body length
1.38 m
🐺 Spotted hyena · COMBINE
0.94 m
🐾 Golden jackal · COMBINE
Top speed
60 km/h
🐺 Spotted hyena
no figure yet
🐾 Golden jackal
Bite force
773 N
🐺 Spotted hyena
no figure yet
🐾 Golden jackal
Maximum lifespan
41 yr
🐺 Spotted hyena · COMBINE
19 yr
🐾 Golden jackal · 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 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).