🐾
Golden jackal
Canis aureus
Carnivores · Least concern
vs
🦅
Secretarybird
Sagittarius serpentarius
Birds · Endangered
One clip names both of them
3.1 million views between them.
Golden jackal outweighs Secretarybird 2.7× — 11 kg against 4 kg.
Tale of the tape
Body mass
11 kg
🐾 Golden jackal · COMBINE
4.02 kg
🦅 Secretarybird · AVONET
Body length
0.94 m
🐾 Golden jackal · COMBINE
no figure yet
🦅 Secretarybird
Maximum lifespan
19 yr
🐾 Golden jackal · COMBINE
no figure yet
🦅 Secretarybird
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 Tetrapoda (superclass), home to 51,389 species.
We know what their shared ancestor was, but not when it lived — no dated family tree spans both of them yet.