🐃
Cape buffalo
Syncerus caffer
Mammals · Near threatened
vs
🦓
Plains zebra
Equus quagga
Mammals · Near threatened
One clip names both of them
5,065 views between them.
Cape buffalo outweighs Plains zebra 2.2× — 646 kg against 290 kg.
Tale of the tape
Body mass
646 kg
🐃 Cape buffalo · COMBINE
290 kg
🦓 Plains zebra · COMBINE
Shoulder height
1.35 m
🐃 Cape buffalo
no figure yet
🦓 Plains zebra
Body length
2.96 m
🐃 Cape buffalo · COMBINE
2.54 m
🦓 Plains zebra · COMBINE
Top speed
55 km/h
🐃 Cape buffalo
no figure yet
🦓 Plains zebra
Maximum lifespan
30 yr
🐃 Cape buffalo · COMBINE
40 yr
🦓 Plains zebra · 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 Laurasiatheria (superorder), home to 4,193 species.
They last shared an ancestor about 61 million years ago.
Estimates range from 53 to 69 million years; the figure above is the middle estimate.
About this estimate
Dates from Upham, Esselstyn & Jetz 2019, PLoS Biology 17:e3000494 (CC0).