🐄
Cow
Bos taurus
Mammals
vs
🦒
Giraffe
Giraffa camelopardalis
Mammals · Vulnerable
7 clips name both of them
11,459 views between them.
Level on mass: Cow 750 kg, Giraffe 800 kg.
To scale
Grid at 1 m
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Silhouettes: PhyloPic — DFoidl (modified by T. Michael Keesey) (CC BY-SA), Bernard Dupont (photograph) and T. Michael Keesey (tracing) (CC BY-SA); others CC0.
Cow
1.28 m
at the shoulder
Human
1.70 m
full standing height
for scale
Giraffe
5.28 m
full standing height
Tale of the tape
Body mass
750 kg
🐄 Cow · AnAge
800 kg
🦒 Giraffe · COMBINE
Shoulder height
1.28 m
🐄 Cow
3.06 m
🦒 Giraffe
Body length
no figure yet
🐄 Cow
4.45 m
🦒 Giraffe · COMBINE
Top speed
no figure yet
🐄 Cow
56 km/h
🦒 Giraffe
Maximum lifespan
20 yr
🐄 Cow · AnAge
39 yr
🦒 Giraffe · COMBINE
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 Pecora (infraorder), home to 586 species.
We know what their shared ancestor was, but not when it lived — no dated family tree spans both of them yet.