🐭
House mouse
Mus musculus
Mammals · Least concern
vs
🐺
Grey wolf
Canis lupus
Carnivores · Least concern
One clip names both of them
924,510 views between them.
Grey wolf outweighs House mouse 1420× — 29.2 kg against 0 kg.
Tale of the tape
Body mass
0.02 kg
🐭 House mouse · COMBINE
29 kg
🐺 Grey wolf · COMBINE
Shoulder height
no figure yet
🐭 House mouse
0.73 m
🐺 Grey wolf
Body length
0.1 m
🐭 House mouse · COMBINE
1.27 m
🐺 Grey wolf · COMBINE
Top speed
no figure yet
🐭 House mouse
62 km/h
🐺 Grey wolf
Bite force
no figure yet
🐭 House mouse
593 N
🐺 Grey wolf
Maximum lifespan
6 yr
🐭 House mouse · 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).