🐄
Cow
Bos taurus
Mammals
vs
🐬
Common bottlenose dolphin
Tursiops truncatus
Marine mammals · Least concern
13 clips name both of them
9,825 views between them.
Cow outweighs Common bottlenose dolphin 3.3× — 750 kg against 230 kg.
Tale of the tape
Body mass
750 kg
🐄 Cow · AnAge
230 kg
🐬 Common bottlenose dolphin · COMBINE
Shoulder height
1.28 m
🐄 Cow
no figure yet
🐬 Common bottlenose dolphin
Body length
no figure yet
🐄 Cow
3.63 m
🐬 Common bottlenose dolphin · COMBINE
Maximum lifespan
20 yr
🐄 Cow · AnAge
53 yr
🐬 Common bottlenose dolphin · 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 46 million years ago.
Estimates range from 40 to 55 million years; the figure above is the middle estimate.
About this estimate
Dates from Upham, Esselstyn & Jetz 2019, PLoS Biology 17:e3000494 (CC0).