🐃
Cape buffalo
Syncerus caffer
Mammals · Near threatened
vs
🐈
Cat
Felis catus
Carnivores
One clip names both of them
230,972 views between them.
Cape buffalo outweighs Cat 170× — 646 kg against 3.9 kg.
To scale
Grid at 50 cm
50 cm
1 m
1.5 m
2 m
Silhouettes: PhyloPic — Jan A. Venter, Herbert H. T. Prins, David A. Balfour & Rob Slotow (vectorized by T. Michael Keesey) (CC BY); others CC0.
Cape buffalo
1.35 m
at the shoulder
Human
1.70 m
full standing height
for scale
Cat
0.26 m
at the shoulder
Tale of the tape
Body mass
646 kg
🐃 Cape buffalo · COMBINE
3.9 kg
🐈 Cat · AnAge
Shoulder height
1.35 m
🐃 Cape buffalo
0.26 m
🐈 Cat
Body length
2.96 m
🐃 Cape buffalo · COMBINE
no figure yet
🐈 Cat
Top speed
55 km/h
🐃 Cape buffalo
no figure yet
🐈 Cat
Maximum lifespan
30 yr
🐃 Cape buffalo · COMBINE
30 yr
🐈 Cat · AnAge
Bars are sized against the larger of the two figures.
Kamerára vett állatok
Igazi felvételek az oldal állatairól — ahogy vadásznak, ahogy harcolnak, és ahogy egyszerűen csak élnek.
Shared ancestry
The closest group they share is Laurasiatheria (superorder), home to 4,193 species.
They last shared an ancestor about 64 million years ago.
Estimates range from 58 to 76 million years; the figure above is the middle estimate.
About this estimate
Dates from Upham, Esselstyn & Jetz 2019, PLoS Biology 17:e3000494 (CC0).