🐃
Cape buffalo
Syncerus caffer
Mammals · Near threatened
vs
🐍
Puff adder
Bitis arietans
Reptiles · Least concern
One clip names both of them
107,813 views between them.
Cape buffalo outweighs Puff adder 270× — 646 kg against 2.4 kg.
Tale of the tape
Body mass
646 kg
🐃 Cape buffalo · COMBINE
2.38 kg
🐍 Puff adder · AnAge
Shoulder height
1.35 m
🐃 Cape buffalo
no figure yet
🐍 Puff adder
Body length
2.96 m
🐃 Cape buffalo · COMBINE
1.85 m
🐍 Puff adder · ReptTraits
Top speed
55 km/h
🐃 Cape buffalo
no figure yet
🐍 Puff adder
Maximum lifespan
30 yr
🐃 Cape buffalo · COMBINE
16 yr
🐍 Puff adder · 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 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.