🐄
Cow
Bos taurus
Mammals
vs
🫏
Donkey
Equus asinus
Mammals
One clip names both of them
41 views between them.
Cow outweighs Donkey 4.5× — 750 kg against 165 kg.
To scale
Grid at 50 cm
50 cm
1 m
1.5 m
2 m
Silhouettes: PhyloPic — DFoidl (modified by T. Michael Keesey) (CC BY-SA), Maija Karala (CC BY-NC-SA); others CC0.
Cow
1.28 m
at the shoulder
Human
1.70 m
full standing height
for scale
Donkey
1.25 m
at the shoulder
Tale of the tape
Body mass
750 kg
🐄 Cow · AnAge
165 kg
🫏 Donkey · AnAge
Shoulder height
1.28 m
🐄 Cow
1.25 m
🫏 Donkey
Maximum lifespan
20 yr
🐄 Cow · AnAge
47 yr
🫏 Donkey · 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 Laurasiatheria (superorder), home to 4,193 species.
We know what their shared ancestor was, but not when it lived — no dated family tree spans both of them yet.