🐃
Cape buffalo
Syncerus caffer
Mammals · Near threatened
vs
🐍
Snakes
Serpentes
Reptiles
average across the group
One clip names both of them
9,834 views between them.
Cape buffalo outweighs Snakes 8.3× — 646 kg against 77.5 kg.
Tale of the tape
Body mass
646 kg
🐃 Cape buffalo · COMBINE
77 kg
🐍 Snakes · group average
Shoulder height
1.35 m
🐃 Cape buffalo
no figure yet
🐍 Snakes
Body length
2.96 m
🐃 Cape buffalo · COMBINE
3.9 m
🐍 Snakes · group average
Top speed
55 km/h
🐃 Cape buffalo
no figure yet
🐍 Snakes
Maximum lifespan
30 yr
🐃 Cape buffalo · COMBINE
27 yr
🐍 Snakes · group average
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.