🐗
Wild boar
Sus scrofa
Mammals · Least concern
vs
🐺
Grey wolf
Canis lupus
Carnivores · Least concern
One clip names both of them
14,849 views between them.
Wild boar outweighs Grey wolf 4.6× — 135 kg against 29.2 kg.
Tale of the tape
Body mass
135 kg
🐗 Wild boar · COMBINE
29 kg
🐺 Grey wolf · COMBINE
Shoulder height
no figure yet
🐗 Wild boar
0.73 m
🐺 Grey wolf
Body length
1.57 m
🐗 Wild boar · COMBINE
1.27 m
🐺 Grey wolf · COMBINE
Top speed
no figure yet
🐗 Wild boar
62 km/h
🐺 Grey wolf
Bite force
3,370 N
🐗 Wild boar
593 N
🐺 Grey wolf
Maximum lifespan
27 yr
🐗 Wild boar · 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 Laurasiatheria (superorder), home to 4,193 species.
They last shared an ancestor about 64 million years ago.
Estimates range from 58 to 76 million years; the figure above is the middle estimate.
About this estimate
Dates from Upham, Esselstyn & Jetz 2019, PLoS Biology 17:e3000494 (CC0).