🐃
Cape buffalo
Syncerus caffer
Mammals · Near threatened
vs
🐦
Griffon Vulture
Gyps fulvus
Birds · Least concern
2 clips name both of them
319,678 views between them.
Cape buffalo outweighs Griffon Vulture 87× — 646 kg against 7.4 kg.
Tale of the tape
Body mass
646 kg
🐃 Cape buffalo · COMBINE
7.44 kg
🐦 Griffon Vulture · AVONET
Shoulder height
1.35 m
🐃 Cape buffalo
no figure yet
🐦 Griffon Vulture
Body length
2.96 m
🐃 Cape buffalo · COMBINE
no figure yet
🐦 Griffon Vulture
Top speed
55 km/h
🐃 Cape buffalo
no figure yet
🐦 Griffon Vulture
Maximum lifespan
30 yr
🐃 Cape buffalo · COMBINE
41 yr
🐦 Griffon Vulture · 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.