🐄
Cow
Bos taurus
Mammals
vs
🐘
Elephant
Loxodonta africana
Mammals · Endangered
101 clips name both of them
56 million views between them.
Elephant outweighs Cow 6.1× — 4,565 kg against 750 kg.
To scale
Grid at 1 m
1 m
2 m
3 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
Elephant
2.80 m
at the shoulder
Tale of the tape
Body mass
750 kg
🐄 Cow · AnAge
4,565 kg
🐘 Elephant · COMBINE
Shoulder height
1.28 m
🐄 Cow
2.8 m
🐘 Elephant
Body length
no figure yet
🐄 Cow
7.5 m
🐘 Elephant · COMBINE
Top speed
no figure yet
🐄 Cow
25 km/h
🐘 Elephant
Maximum lifespan
20 yr
🐄 Cow · AnAge
80 yr
🐘 Elephant · 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 Theria (subclass), home to 9,319 species.
They last shared an ancestor about 91 million years ago.
Estimates range from 78 to 117 million years; the figure above is the middle estimate.
About this estimate
Dates from Upham, Esselstyn & Jetz 2019, PLoS Biology 17:e3000494 (CC0).