🦩
Australian White Ibis
Threskiornis molucca
Birds · Least concern
vs
🐃
Cape buffalo
Syncerus caffer
Mammals · Near threatened
One clip names both of them
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Cape buffalo outweighs Australian White Ibis 360× — 646 kg against 1.8 kg. Both figures are averages across males and females.
Tale of the tape
Body mass
1.81 kg
🦩 Australian White Ibis · AnAge
646 kg
🐃 Cape buffalo · COMBINE
Shoulder height
no figure yet
🦩 Australian White Ibis
1.35 m
🐃 Cape buffalo
Body length
no figure yet
🦩 Australian White Ibis
2.96 m
🐃 Cape buffalo · COMBINE
Top speed
no figure yet
🦩 Australian White Ibis
55 km/h
🐃 Cape buffalo
Maximum lifespan
33 yr
🦩 Australian White Ibis · AnAge
30 yr
🐃 Cape buffalo · COMBINE
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.