🐾
Golden jackal
Canis aureus
Carnivores · Least concern
vs
🦁
Lion
Panthera leo
Carnivores · Vulnerable
5 clips name both of them
16,652 views between them.
Lion outweighs Golden jackal 14× — 149 kg against 11 kg. Both figures are averages across males and females.
Tale of the tape
Body mass
11 kg
🐾 Golden jackal · COMBINE
149 kg
🦁 Lion · COMBINE
Shoulder height
no figure yet
🐾 Golden jackal
1.15 m
🦁 Lion
Body length
0.94 m
🐾 Golden jackal · COMBINE
2.17 m
🦁 Lion · COMBINE
Top speed
no figure yet
🐾 Golden jackal
55 km/h
🦁 Lion
Bite force
no figure yet
🐾 Golden jackal
1,768 N
🦁 Lion
Maximum lifespan
19 yr
🐾 Golden jackal · COMBINE
30 yr
🦁 Lion · 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).