🐾
Red Panda
Ailurus fulgens
Carnivores · Endangered
vs
🐺
Grey wolf
Canis lupus
Carnivores · Least concern
2 clips name both of them
1,637 views between them.
Grey wolf outweighs Red Panda 6.1× — 29.2 kg against 4.7 kg.
Tale of the tape
Body mass
4.75 kg
🐾 Red Panda · COMBINE
29 kg
🐺 Grey wolf · COMBINE
Shoulder height
no figure yet
🐾 Red Panda
0.73 m
🐺 Grey wolf
Body length
0.61 m
🐾 Red Panda · COMBINE
1.27 m
🐺 Grey wolf · COMBINE
Top speed
no figure yet
🐾 Red Panda
62 km/h
🐺 Grey wolf
Bite force
no figure yet
🐾 Red Panda
593 N
🐺 Grey wolf
Maximum lifespan
19 yr
🐾 Red Panda · 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 Caniformia (suborder), home to 469 species.
They last shared an ancestor about 33 million years ago.
Estimates range from 28 to 40 million years; the figure above is the middle estimate.
About this estimate
Dates from Upham, Esselstyn & Jetz 2019, PLoS Biology 17:e3000494 (CC0).