🐄
Cow
Bos taurus
Mammals
vs
🦅
Golden eagle
Aquila chrysaetos
Birds · Least concern
One clip names both of them
94 views between them.
Cow outweighs Golden eagle 180× — 750 kg against 4.2 kg. Both figures are averages across males and females.
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); others CC0.
Cow
1.28 m
at the shoulder
Human
1.70 m
full standing height
for scale
Golden eagle
0.61 m
full standing height · measured standing
Tale of the tape
Body mass
750 kg
🐄 Cow · AnAge
4.25 kg
🦅 Golden eagle · AVONET
Shoulder height
1.28 m
🐄 Cow
no figure yet
🦅 Golden eagle
Maximum lifespan
20 yr
🐄 Cow · AnAge
48 yr
🦅 Golden eagle · 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.