🐄
Cow
Bos taurus
Mammals
vs
🐆
Leopard
Panthera pardus
Carnivores · Vulnerable
2 clips name both of them
14,183 views between them.
Cow outweighs Leopard 14× — 750 kg against 53.1 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), Lukasiniho (CC BY-NC-SA); others CC0.
Cow
1.28 m
at the shoulder
Human
1.70 m
full standing height
for scale
Leopard
0.72 m
at the shoulder
Tale of the tape
Body mass
750 kg
🐄 Cow · AnAge
53 kg
🐆 Leopard · COMBINE
Shoulder height
1.28 m
🐄 Cow
0.72 m
🐆 Leopard
Body length
no figure yet
🐄 Cow
1.64 m
🐆 Leopard · COMBINE
Top speed
no figure yet
🐄 Cow
58 km/h
🐆 Leopard
Bite force
no figure yet
🐄 Cow
467 N
🐆 Leopard
Maximum lifespan
20 yr
🐄 Cow · AnAge
27 yr
🐆 Leopard · COMBINE
Bars are sized against the larger of the two figures. Bite force figures come from individual studies and vary a lot between sources.
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).