🦎
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.
Animals caught on camera
Real footage of the animals on this site — hunting, fighting, and getting on with it.
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.