🐃
Cape buffalo
Syncerus caffer
Mammals · Near threatened
vs
🦎
Komodo dragon
Varanus komodoensis
Reptiles · Endangered
One clip names both of them
69,155 views between them.
Cape buffalo outweighs Komodo dragon 7.4× — 646 kg against 87 kg.
Tale of the tape
Body mass
646 kg
🐃 Cape buffalo · COMBINE
87 kg
🦎 Komodo dragon · AnAge
Shoulder height
1.35 m
🐃 Cape buffalo
no figure yet
🦎 Komodo dragon
Body length
2.96 m
🐃 Cape buffalo · COMBINE
no figure yet
🦎 Komodo dragon
Top speed
55 km/h
🐃 Cape buffalo
no figure yet
🦎 Komodo dragon
Bite force
no figure yet
🐃 Cape buffalo
149 N
🦎 Komodo dragon
Maximum lifespan
30 yr
🐃 Cape buffalo · COMBINE
62 yr
🦎 Komodo dragon · 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.