🐃
Cape buffalo
Syncerus caffer
Mammals · Near threatened
vs
🐾
Golden jackal
Canis aureus
Carnivores · Least concern
One clip names both of them
387 views between them.
Cape buffalo outweighs Golden jackal 59× — 646 kg against 11 kg.
Tale of the tape
Body mass
646 kg
🐃 Cape buffalo · COMBINE
11 kg
🐾 Golden jackal · COMBINE
Shoulder height
1.35 m
🐃 Cape buffalo
no figure yet
🐾 Golden jackal
Body length
2.96 m
🐃 Cape buffalo · COMBINE
0.94 m
🐾 Golden jackal · COMBINE
Top speed
55 km/h
🐃 Cape buffalo
no figure yet
🐾 Golden jackal
Maximum lifespan
30 yr
🐃 Cape buffalo · COMBINE
19 yr
🐾 Golden jackal · COMBINE
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).