🐃
Cape buffalo
Syncerus caffer
Mammals · Near threatened
vs
🐾
Common warthog
Phacochoerus africanus
Mammals · Least concern
One clip names both of them
59,433 views between them.
Cape buffalo outweighs Common warthog 7.1× — 646 kg against 91.3 kg.
Tale of the tape
Body mass
646 kg
🐃 Cape buffalo · COMBINE
91 kg
🐾 Common warthog · COMBINE
Shoulder height
1.35 m
🐃 Cape buffalo
no figure yet
🐾 Common warthog
Body length
2.96 m
🐃 Cape buffalo · COMBINE
1.36 m
🐾 Common warthog · COMBINE
Top speed
55 km/h
🐃 Cape buffalo
no figure yet
🐾 Common warthog
Maximum lifespan
30 yr
🐃 Cape buffalo · COMBINE
21 yr
🐾 Common warthog · COMBINE
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 Artiodactyla (order), home to 848 species.
They last shared an ancestor about 53 million years ago.
Estimates range from 47 to 65 million years; the figure above is the middle estimate.
About this estimate
Dates from Upham, Esselstyn & Jetz 2019, PLoS Biology 17:e3000494 (CC0).