🐅
Tiger
Panthera tigris
Carnivores · Endangered
vs
🐺
Grey wolf
Canis lupus
Carnivores · Least concern
One clip names both of them
6,213 views between them.
Tiger outweighs Grey wolf 4.4× — 129 kg against 29.2 kg. Both figures are averages across males and females.
To scale
Grid at 50 cm
50 cm
1 m
1.5 m
2 m
Silhouettes: PhyloPic — Gabriela Palomo-Munoz (CC BY-NC); others CC0.
Tiger
0.91 m
at the shoulder · measured standing
Human
1.70 m
full standing height
for scale
Grey wolf
0.73 m
at the shoulder · measured lying down
Tale of the tape
Body mass
129 kg
🐅 Tiger · COMBINE
29 kg
🐺 Grey wolf · COMBINE
Shoulder height
0.91 m
🐅 Tiger
0.73 m
🐺 Grey wolf
Body length
2.31 m
🐅 Tiger · COMBINE
1.27 m
🐺 Grey wolf · COMBINE
Top speed
54 km/h
🐅 Tiger
62 km/h
🐺 Grey wolf
Bite force
1,525 N
🐅 Tiger
593 N
🐺 Grey wolf
Maximum lifespan
26 yr
🐅 Tiger · 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 Carnivora (order), home to 728 species.
They last shared an ancestor about 39 million years ago.
Estimates range from 32 to 45 million years; the figure above is the middle estimate.
About this estimate
Dates from Upham, Esselstyn & Jetz 2019, PLoS Biology 17:e3000494 (CC0).