🐃
Cape buffalo
Syncerus caffer
Mammals · Near threatened
vs
🐑
Sheep
Ovis aries
Mammals · Not evaluated
One clip names both of them
1,131 views between them.
Cape buffalo outweighs Sheep 8.1× — 646 kg against 80 kg.
Tale of the tape
Body mass
646 kg
🐃 Cape buffalo · COMBINE
80 kg
🐑 Sheep · AnAge
Shoulder height
1.35 m
🐃 Cape buffalo
no figure yet
🐑 Sheep
Body length
2.96 m
🐃 Cape buffalo · COMBINE
no figure yet
🐑 Sheep
Top speed
55 km/h
🐃 Cape buffalo
no figure yet
🐑 Sheep
Maximum lifespan
30 yr
🐃 Cape buffalo · COMBINE
23 yr
🐑 Sheep · 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 Bovidae (family), home to 379 species.
We know what their shared ancestor was, but not when it lived — no dated family tree spans both of them yet.