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Beluga whale
Delphinapterus leucas
Marine mammals · Least concern
vs
🐄
Cow
Bos taurus
Mammals
2 clips name both of them
23,665 views between them.
Beluga whale outweighs Cow 1.8× — 1,380 kg against 750 kg.
Tale of the tape
Body mass
1,380 kg
🐾 Beluga whale · COMBINE
750 kg
🐄 Cow · AnAge
Shoulder height
no figure yet
🐾 Beluga whale
1.28 m
🐄 Cow
Body length
4.3 m
🐾 Beluga whale · SeaLifeBase
no figure yet
🐄 Cow
Maximum lifespan
40 yr
🐾 Beluga whale · COMBINE
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 Artiodactyla (order), home to 848 species.
They last shared an ancestor about 46 million years ago.
Estimates range from 40 to 55 million years; the figure above is the middle estimate.
About this estimate
Dates from Upham, Esselstyn & Jetz 2019, PLoS Biology 17:e3000494 (CC0).