🐦
Griffon Vulture
Gyps fulvus
Birds · Least concern
vs
🐺
Grey wolf
Canis lupus
Carnivores · Least concern
One clip names both of them
8,000 views between them.
Grey wolf outweighs Griffon Vulture 3.9× — 29.2 kg against 7.4 kg.
Tale of the tape
Body mass
7.44 kg
🐦 Griffon Vulture · AVONET
29 kg
🐺 Grey wolf · COMBINE
Shoulder height
no figure yet
🐦 Griffon Vulture
0.73 m
🐺 Grey wolf
Body length
no figure yet
🐦 Griffon Vulture
1.27 m
🐺 Grey wolf · COMBINE
Top speed
no figure yet
🐦 Griffon Vulture
62 km/h
🐺 Grey wolf
Bite force
no figure yet
🐦 Griffon Vulture
593 N
🐺 Grey wolf
Maximum lifespan
41 yr
🐦 Griffon Vulture · 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.