🐦
Western Barn Owl
Tyto alba
Birds · Least concern
vs
🐺
Grey wolf
Canis lupus
Carnivores · Least concern
One clip names both of them
11,263 views between them.
Grey wolf outweighs Western Barn Owl 72× — 29.2 kg against 0.4 kg.
Tale of the tape
Body mass
0.4 kg
🐦 Western Barn Owl · AVONET
29 kg
🐺 Grey wolf · COMBINE
Shoulder height
no figure yet
🐦 Western Barn Owl
0.73 m
🐺 Grey wolf
Body length
no figure yet
🐦 Western Barn Owl
1.27 m
🐺 Grey wolf · COMBINE
Top speed
no figure yet
🐦 Western Barn Owl
62 km/h
🐺 Grey wolf
Bite force
no figure yet
🐦 Western Barn Owl
593 N
🐺 Grey wolf
Maximum lifespan
34 yr
🐦 Western Barn Owl · AnAge
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 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.