🐺
African wild dog
Lycaon pictus
Carnivores · Endangered
vs
🐆
Cheetah
Acinonyx jubatus
Carnivores · Vulnerable
One clip names both of them
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Cheetah outweighs African wild dog 2.1× — 50.6 kg against 24.3 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).
African wild dog
0.69 m
at the shoulder
Human
1.70 m
full standing height
for scale
Cheetah
0.80 m
at the shoulder
Tale of the tape
Body mass
24 kg
🐺 African wild dog · COMBINE
51 kg
🐆 Cheetah · COMBINE
Shoulder height
0.69 m
🐺 African wild dog
0.8 m
🐆 Cheetah
Body length
1.02 m
🐺 African wild dog · COMBINE
1.49 m
🐆 Cheetah · COMBINE
Top speed
no figure yet
🐺 African wild dog
104 km/h
🐆 Cheetah
Bite force
no figure yet
🐺 African wild dog
472 N
🐆 Cheetah
Maximum lifespan
17 yr
🐺 African wild dog · COMBINE
20 yr
🐆 Cheetah · COMBINE
Bars are sized against the larger of the two figures. Bite force figures come from individual studies and vary a lot between sources.
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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).