🐄
Cow
Bos taurus
Mammals
vs
🦅
Golden eagle
Aquila chrysaetos
Birds · Least concern
One clip names both of them
94 views between them.
Cow outweighs Golden eagle 180× — 750 kg against 4.2 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 — DFoidl (modified by T. Michael Keesey) (CC BY-SA); others CC0.
Cow
1.28 m
at the shoulder
Human
1.70 m
full standing height
for scale
Golden eagle
0.61 m
full standing height · measured standing
Tale of the tape
Body mass
750 kg
🐄 Cow · AnAge
4.25 kg
🦅 Golden eagle · AVONET
Shoulder height
1.28 m
🐄 Cow
no figure yet
🦅 Golden eagle
Maximum lifespan
20 yr
🐄 Cow · AnAge
48 yr
🦅 Golden eagle · AnAge
Bars are sized against the larger of the two figures.
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Shared ancestry
The closest group they share is Tetrapoda (superclass), home to 51,389 species.
We know what their shared ancestor was, but not when it lived — no dated family tree spans both of them yet.