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Blue wildebeest outweighs Golden jackal 16× — 181 kg against 11 kg.

Tale of the tape

Body mass

11 kg

🐾 Golden jackal · COMBINE

181 kg

🐃 Blue wildebeest · COMBINE

Body length

0.94 m

🐾 Golden jackal · COMBINE

2.21 m

🐃 Blue wildebeest · COMBINE

Maximum lifespan

19 yr

🐾 Golden jackal · COMBINE

25 yr

🐃 Blue wildebeest · COMBINE

Bars are sized against the larger of the two figures.

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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).