🐃
Cape buffalo
Syncerus caffer
Mammals · Near threatened
vs
🦎
Komodo dragon
Varanus komodoensis
Reptiles · Endangered
One clip names both of them
69,155 views between them.
Cape buffalo outweighs Komodo dragon 7.4× — 646 kg against 87 kg.
Tale of the tape
Body mass
646 kg
🐃 Cape buffalo · COMBINE
87 kg
🦎 Komodo dragon · AnAge
Shoulder height
1.35 m
🐃 Cape buffalo
no figure yet
🦎 Komodo dragon
Body length
2.96 m
🐃 Cape buffalo · COMBINE
no figure yet
🦎 Komodo dragon
Top speed
55 km/h
🐃 Cape buffalo
no figure yet
🦎 Komodo dragon
Bite force
no figure yet
🐃 Cape buffalo
149 N
🦎 Komodo dragon
Maximum lifespan
30 yr
🐃 Cape buffalo · COMBINE
62 yr
🦎 Komodo dragon · AnAge
Bars are sized against the larger of the two figures. Bite force figures come from individual studies and vary a lot between sources.
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.