🐃
Cape buffalo
Syncerus caffer
Mammals · Near threatened
vs
🐊
Nile crocodile
Crocodylus niloticus
Reptiles · Least concern
7 clips name both of them
21 million views between them.
Cape buffalo outweighs Nile crocodile 6.9× — 646 kg against 94.2 kg.
Tale of the tape
Body mass
646 kg
🐃 Cape buffalo · COMBINE
94 kg
🐊 Nile crocodile · AnAge
Shoulder height
1.35 m
🐃 Cape buffalo
no figure yet
🐊 Nile crocodile
Body length
2.96 m
🐃 Cape buffalo · COMBINE
5 m
🐊 Nile crocodile · ReptTraits
Top speed
55 km/h
🐃 Cape buffalo
9.86 km/h
🐊 Nile crocodile
Bite force
no figure yet
🐃 Cape buffalo
3,043 N
🐊 Nile crocodile
Maximum lifespan
30 yr
🐃 Cape buffalo · COMBINE
56 yr
🐊 Nile crocodile · AnAge
Bars are sized against the larger of the two figures. Bite force figures come from individual studies and vary a lot between sources.
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.