🐐
Goat
Capra aegagrus hircus
Mammals · Not evaluated
vs
🐃
Mountain goat
Oreamnos americanus
Mammals · Least concern
13 clips name both of them
32,071 views between them.
Mountain goat outweighs Goat 1.3× — 77.2 kg against 61 kg.
To scale
Grid at 50 cm
50 cm
1 m
1.5 m
2 m
Silhouettes: PhyloPic — Sarah E. Haworth (CC BY-SA); others CC0.
Goat
0.64 m
at the shoulder
Human
1.70 m
full standing height
for scale
Mountain goat
1.01 m
at the shoulder
Tale of the tape
Body mass
61 kg
🐐 Goat · AnAge
77 kg
🐃 Mountain goat · COMBINE
Shoulder height
0.64 m
🐐 Goat
1.01 m
🐃 Mountain goat
Body length
no figure yet
🐐 Goat
1.45 m
🐃 Mountain goat · COMBINE
Maximum lifespan
21 yr
🐐 Goat · AnAge
21 yr
🐃 Mountain goat · 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 Caprinae (subfamily), home to 96 species.
They last shared an ancestor about 6.8 million years ago.
Estimates range from 5.8 to 8.7 million years; the figure above is the middle estimate.
About this estimate
Dates from Upham, Esselstyn & Jetz 2019, PLoS Biology 17:e3000494 (CC0).