🐃
Cape buffalo
Syncerus caffer
Mammals · Near threatened
vs
🧍
Human
Homo sapiens
Primates · Least concern
One clip names both of them
12,124 views between them.
Cape buffalo outweighs Human 10× — 646 kg against 62 kg.
To scale
Grid at 50 cm
50 cm
1 m
1.5 m
2 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
Tale of the tape
Body mass
646 kg
🐃 Cape buffalo · COMBINE
62 kg
🧍 Human · AnAge
Shoulder height
1.35 m
🐃 Cape buffalo
no figure yet
🧍 Human
Body length
2.96 m
🐃 Cape buffalo · COMBINE
no figure yet
🧍 Human
Top speed
55 km/h
🐃 Cape buffalo
38 km/h
🧍 Human
Bite force
no figure yet
🐃 Cape buffalo
843 N
🧍 Human
Maximum lifespan
30 yr
🐃 Cape buffalo · COMBINE
123 yr
🧍 Human · 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 Theria (subclass), home to 9,319 species.
They last shared an ancestor about 81 million years ago.
Estimates range from 74 to 89 million years; the figure above is the middle estimate.
About this estimate
Dates from Upham, Esselstyn & Jetz 2019, PLoS Biology 17:e3000494 (CC0).