One clip names both of them

63,430 views between them.

Cow outweighs Golden jackal 68× — 750 kg against 11 kg.

Tale of the tape

Body mass

750 kg

🐄 Cow · AnAge

11 kg

🐾 Golden jackal · COMBINE

Shoulder height

1.28 m

🐄 Cow

no figure yet

🐾 Golden jackal

Body length

no figure yet

🐄 Cow

0.94 m

🐾 Golden jackal · COMBINE

Maximum lifespan

20 yr

🐄 Cow · AnAge

19 yr

🐾 Golden jackal · 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 Laurasiatheria (superorder), home to 4,193 species.

They last shared an ancestor about 64 million years ago.

Estimates range from 58 to 76 million years; the figure above is the middle estimate.

About this estimate

Dates from Upham, Esselstyn & Jetz 2019, PLoS Biology 17:e3000494 (CC0).