🐺
African wild dog
Lycaon pictus
Carnivores · Endangered
vs
🦛
Hippopotamus
Hippopotamus amphibius
Mammals · Vulnerable
2 clips name both of them
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Hippopotamus outweighs African wild dog 110× — 2,640 kg against 24.3 kg.
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
Hippopotamus
1.47 m
at the shoulder
Tale of the tape
Body mass
24 kg
🐺 African wild dog · COMBINE
2,640 kg
🦛 Hippopotamus · COMBINE
Shoulder height
0.69 m
🐺 African wild dog
1.47 m
🦛 Hippopotamus
Body length
1.02 m
🐺 African wild dog · COMBINE
5.05 m
🦛 Hippopotamus · COMBINE
Top speed
no figure yet
🐺 African wild dog
24 km/h
🦛 Hippopotamus
Maximum lifespan
17 yr
🐺 African wild dog · COMBINE
61 yr
🦛 Hippopotamus · 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.
We know what their shared ancestor was, but not when it lived — no dated family tree spans both of them yet.