🐒
Rhesus macaque
Macaca mulatta
Primates · Least concern
vs
🐺
Grey wolf
Canis lupus
Carnivores · Least concern
One clip names both of them
1,867 views between them.
Grey wolf outweighs Rhesus macaque 4.4× — 29.2 kg against 6.6 kg.
Tale of the tape
Body mass
6.61 kg
🐒 Rhesus macaque · COMBINE
29 kg
🐺 Grey wolf · COMBINE
Shoulder height
no figure yet
🐒 Rhesus macaque
0.73 m
🐺 Grey wolf
Body length
0.66 m
🐒 Rhesus macaque · COMBINE
1.27 m
🐺 Grey wolf · COMBINE
Top speed
no figure yet
🐒 Rhesus macaque
62 km/h
🐺 Grey wolf
Bite force
no figure yet
🐒 Rhesus macaque
593 N
🐺 Grey wolf
Maximum lifespan
40 yr
🐒 Rhesus macaque · COMBINE
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).