🦎
American alligator
Alligator mississippiensis
Reptiles · Least concern
vs
🐄
Cow
Bos taurus
Mammals
One clip names both of them
25,712 views between them.
Cow outweighs American alligator 5.0× — 750 kg against 150 kg. Both figures are averages across males and females.
Tale of the tape
Body mass
150 kg
🦎 American alligator · AnAge
750 kg
🐄 Cow · AnAge
Shoulder height
no figure yet
🦎 American alligator
1.28 m
🐄 Cow
Body length
4.6 m
🦎 American alligator · ReptTraits
no figure yet
🐄 Cow
Maximum lifespan
77 yr
🦎 American alligator · AnAge
20 yr
🐄 Cow · AnAge
Bars are sized against the larger of the two figures.
Les animaux pris sur le vif
De vraies images des animaux de ce site — à la chasse, au combat, ou vaquant simplement à leurs occupations.
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.