🐃
Cape buffalo
Syncerus caffer
Mammals · Near threatened
vs
🐕
Dog
Canis familiaris
Carnivores
2 clips name both of them
1,001 views between them.
Cape buffalo outweighs Dog 16× — 646 kg against 40 kg.
Tale of the tape
Body mass
646 kg
🐃 Cape buffalo · COMBINE
40 kg
🐕 Dog · AnAge
Shoulder height
1.35 m
🐃 Cape buffalo
no figure yet
🐕 Dog
Body length
2.96 m
🐃 Cape buffalo · COMBINE
no figure yet
🐕 Dog
Top speed
55 km/h
🐃 Cape buffalo
no figure yet
🐕 Dog
Maximum lifespan
30 yr
🐃 Cape buffalo · COMBINE
27 yr
🐕 Dog · 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 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).