🐃
Cape buffalo
Syncerus caffer
Mammals · Near threatened
vs
🐃
Dromedary
Camelus dromedarius
Mammals · Endangered
One clip names both of them
536 views between them.
Cape buffalo outweighs Dromedary 1.5× — 646 kg against 434 kg. Both figures are averages across males and females.
To scale
Grid at 50 cm
50 cm
1 m
1.5 m
2 m
2.5 m
Silhouettes: PhyloPic — Jan A. Venter, Herbert H. T. Prins, David A. Balfour & Rob Slotow (vectorized by T. Michael Keesey) (CC BY); others CC0.
Cape buffalo
1.35 m
at the shoulder
Human
1.70 m
full standing height
for scale
Dromedary
1.90 m
at the shoulder
Tale of the tape
Body mass
646 kg
🐃 Cape buffalo · COMBINE
434 kg
🐃 Dromedary · AnAge
Shoulder height
1.35 m
🐃 Cape buffalo
1.9 m
🐃 Dromedary
Body length
2.96 m
🐃 Cape buffalo · COMBINE
no figure yet
🐃 Dromedary
Top speed
55 km/h
🐃 Cape buffalo
no figure yet
🐃 Dromedary
Maximum lifespan
30 yr
🐃 Cape buffalo · COMBINE
28 yr
🐃 Dromedary · 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 58 million years ago.
Estimates range from 52 to 68 million years; the figure above is the middle estimate.
About this estimate
Dates from Upham, Esselstyn & Jetz 2019, PLoS Biology 17:e3000494 (CC0).