🐄
Cow
Bos taurus
Mammals
vs
🐺
Grey wolf
Canis lupus
Carnivores · Least concern
2 clips name both of them
5.4 million views between them.
Cow outweighs Grey wolf 26× — 750 kg against 29.2 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
Grey wolf
0.73 m
at the shoulder · measured lying down
Tale of the tape
Body mass
750 kg
🐄 Cow · AnAge
29 kg
🐺 Grey wolf · COMBINE
Shoulder height
1.28 m
🐄 Cow
0.73 m
🐺 Grey wolf
Body length
no figure yet
🐄 Cow
1.27 m
🐺 Grey wolf · COMBINE
Top speed
no figure yet
🐄 Cow
62 km/h
🐺 Grey wolf
Bite force
no figure yet
🐄 Cow
593 N
🐺 Grey wolf
Maximum lifespan
20 yr
🐄 Cow · AnAge
29 yr
🐺 Grey wolf · 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).