🐄
Cow
Bos taurus
Mammals
vs
🐃
Blue wildebeest
Connochaetes taurinus
Mammals · Least concern
9 clips name both of them
3.4 million views between them.
Cow outweighs Blue wildebeest 4.2× — 750 kg against 181 kg.
Tale of the tape
Body mass
750 kg
🐄 Cow · AnAge
181 kg
🐃 Blue wildebeest · COMBINE
Shoulder height
1.28 m
🐄 Cow
no figure yet
🐃 Blue wildebeest
Body length
no figure yet
🐄 Cow
2.21 m
🐃 Blue wildebeest · COMBINE
Maximum lifespan
20 yr
🐄 Cow · AnAge
25 yr
🐃 Blue wildebeest · 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 Bovidae (family), home to 379 species.
They last shared an ancestor about 14 million years ago.
Estimates range from 12 to 17 million years; the figure above is the middle estimate.
About this estimate
Dates from Upham, Esselstyn & Jetz 2019, PLoS Biology 17:e3000494 (CC0).