🐄
Cow
Bos taurus
Mammals
vs
🐾
Humpback whale
Megaptera novaeangliae
Marine mammals · Least concern
14 clips name both of them
29,439 views between them.
Humpback whale outweighs Cow 40× — 30,000 kg against 750 kg.
Tale of the tape
Body mass
750 kg
🐄 Cow · AnAge
30,000 kg
🐾 Humpback whale · COMBINE
Shoulder height
1.28 m
🐄 Cow
no figure yet
🐾 Humpback whale
Body length
no figure yet
🐄 Cow
14 m
🐾 Humpback whale · COMBINE
Maximum lifespan
20 yr
🐄 Cow · AnAge
95 yr
🐾 Humpback whale · 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.
They last shared an ancestor about 46 million years ago.
Estimates range from 40 to 55 million years; the figure above is the middle estimate.
About this estimate
Dates from Upham, Esselstyn & Jetz 2019, PLoS Biology 17:e3000494 (CC0).