🐺
Grey wolf
Canis lupus
Carnivores · Least concern
vs
🦡
Wolverine
Gulo gulo
Carnivores · Least concern
3 clips name both of them
3.2 million views between them.
Grey wolf outweighs Wolverine 2.3× — 29.2 kg against 12.8 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 (CC0).
Grey wolf
0.73 m
at the shoulder · measured lying down
Human
1.70 m
full standing height
for scale
Wolverine
0.39 m
at the shoulder
Tale of the tape
Body mass
29 kg
🐺 Grey wolf · COMBINE
13 kg
🦡 Wolverine · COMBINE
Shoulder height
0.73 m
🐺 Grey wolf
0.39 m
🦡 Wolverine
Body length
1.27 m
🐺 Grey wolf · COMBINE
0.81 m
🦡 Wolverine · COMBINE
Top speed
62 km/h
🐺 Grey wolf
no figure yet
🦡 Wolverine
Bite force
593 N
🐺 Grey wolf
no figure yet
🦡 Wolverine
Maximum lifespan
29 yr
🐺 Grey wolf · COMBINE
19 yr
🦡 Wolverine · 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).