🐄
Cow
Bos taurus
Mammals
vs
🦒
Giraffe
Giraffa camelopardalis
Mammals · Vulnerable
7 clips name both of them
11,459 views between them.
Level on mass: Cow 750 kg, Giraffe 800 kg.
To scale
Grid at 1 m
1 m
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5 m
6 m
Silhouettes: PhyloPic — DFoidl (modified by T. Michael Keesey) (CC BY-SA), Bernard Dupont (photograph) and T. Michael Keesey (tracing) (CC BY-SA); others CC0.
Cow
1.28 m
at the shoulder
Human
1.70 m
full standing height
for scale
Giraffe
5.28 m
full standing height
Tale of the tape
Body mass
750 kg
🐄 Cow · AnAge
800 kg
🦒 Giraffe · COMBINE
Shoulder height
1.28 m
🐄 Cow
3.06 m
🦒 Giraffe
Body length
no figure yet
🐄 Cow
4.45 m
🦒 Giraffe · COMBINE
Top speed
no figure yet
🐄 Cow
56 km/h
🦒 Giraffe
Maximum lifespan
20 yr
🐄 Cow · AnAge
39 yr
🦒 Giraffe · 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 Pecora (infraorder), home to 586 species.
We know what their shared ancestor was, but not when it lived — no dated family tree spans both of them yet.