2 clips name both of them

98,938 views between them.

Level on mass: Raccoon 5.1 kg, Red Panda 4.7 kg.

Tale of the tape

Body mass

5.08 kg

🦝 Raccoon · COMBINE

4.75 kg

🐾 Red Panda · COMBINE

Shoulder height

0.3 m

🦝 Raccoon

no figure yet

🐾 Red Panda

Body length

0.6 m

🦝 Raccoon · COMBINE

0.61 m

🐾 Red Panda · COMBINE

Maximum lifespan

21 yr

🦝 Raccoon · COMBINE

19 yr

🐾 Red Panda · COMBINE

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 Caniformia (suborder), home to 469 species.

They last shared an ancestor about 22 million years ago.

Estimates range from 20 to 26 million years; the figure above is the middle estimate.

About this estimate

Dates from Upham, Esselstyn & Jetz 2019, PLoS Biology 17:e3000494 (CC0).