🐄
Cow
Bos taurus
Mammals
vs
🦛
Hippopotamus
Hippopotamus amphibius
Mammals · Vulnerable
3 clips name both of them
4.8 million views between them.
Hippopotamus outweighs Cow 3.5× — 2,640 kg against 750 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); others CC0.
Cow
1.28 m
at the shoulder
Human
1.70 m
full standing height
for scale
Hippopotamus
1.47 m
at the shoulder
Tale of the tape
Body mass
750 kg
🐄 Cow · AnAge
2,640 kg
🦛 Hippopotamus · COMBINE
Shoulder height
1.28 m
🐄 Cow
1.47 m
🦛 Hippopotamus
Body length
no figure yet
🐄 Cow
5.05 m
🦛 Hippopotamus · COMBINE
Top speed
no figure yet
🐄 Cow
24 km/h
🦛 Hippopotamus
Maximum lifespan
20 yr
🐄 Cow · AnAge
61 yr
🦛 Hippopotamus · 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 Artiodactyla (order), home to 848 species.
We know what their shared ancestor was, but not when it lived — no dated family tree spans both of them yet.