🐄
Cow
Bos taurus
Mammals
vs
🐎
Horse
Equus ferus caballus
Mammals
4 clips name both of them
23,871 views between them.
Cow outweighs Horse 2.5× — 750 kg against 300 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
Horse
1.61 m
at the shoulder
Tale of the tape
Body mass
750 kg
🐄 Cow · AnAge
300 kg
🐎 Horse · AnAge
Shoulder height
1.28 m
🐄 Cow
1.61 m
🐎 Horse
Top speed
no figure yet
🐄 Cow
64 km/h
🐎 Horse
Maximum lifespan
20 yr
🐄 Cow · AnAge
57 yr
🐎 Horse · 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 Laurasiatheria (superorder), home to 4,193 species.
They last shared an ancestor about 61 million years ago.
Estimates range from 53 to 69 million years; the figure above is the middle estimate.
About this estimate
Dates from Upham, Esselstyn & Jetz 2019, PLoS Biology 17:e3000494 (CC0).