🦬
American bison
Bison bison
Mammals · Near threatened
vs
🐄
Cow
Bos taurus
Mammals
8 clips name both of them
5.1 million views between them.
Cow outweighs American bison 1.2× — 750 kg against 625 kg.
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.
American bison
1.66 m
at the shoulder
Human
1.70 m
full standing height
for scale
Cow
1.28 m
at the shoulder
Tale of the tape
Body mass
625 kg
🦬 American bison · COMBINE
750 kg
🐄 Cow · AnAge
Shoulder height
1.66 m
🦬 American bison
1.28 m
🐄 Cow
Body length
2.9 m
🦬 American bison · COMBINE
no figure yet
🐄 Cow
Top speed
52 km/h
🦬 American bison
no figure yet
🐄 Cow
Maximum lifespan
33 yr
🦬 American bison · COMBINE
20 yr
🐄 Cow · AnAge
Bars are sized against the larger of the two figures.
Animales captados por la cámara
Imágenes reales de los animales de este sitio: cazando, peleando y haciendo su vida.
Shared ancestry
The closest group they share is Bovinae (subfamily), home to 81 species.
They last shared an ancestor about 3.2 million years ago.
Estimates range from 2.0 to 4.0 million years; the figure above is the middle estimate.
About this estimate
Dates from Upham, Esselstyn & Jetz 2019, PLoS Biology 17:e3000494 (CC0).