🐄
Cow
Bos taurus
Mammals
vs
🐃
Greater kudu
Tragelaphus strepsiceros
Mammals · Least concern
12 clips name both of them
94,532 views between them.
Cow outweighs Greater kudu 3.6× — 750 kg against 206 kg.
Tale of the tape
Body mass
750 kg
🐄 Cow · AnAge
206 kg
🐃 Greater kudu · COMBINE
Shoulder height
1.28 m
🐄 Cow
no figure yet
🐃 Greater kudu
Body length
no figure yet
🐄 Cow
2.33 m
🐃 Greater kudu · COMBINE
Maximum lifespan
20 yr
🐄 Cow · AnAge
23 yr
🐃 Greater kudu · 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 Bovinae (subfamily), home to 81 species.
They last shared an ancestor about 11 million years ago.
Estimates range from 9.2 to 14 million years; the figure above is the middle estimate.
About this estimate
Dates from Upham, Esselstyn & Jetz 2019, PLoS Biology 17:e3000494 (CC0).