🐎
Horse
Equus ferus caballus
Mammals
vs
🦓
Plains zebra
Equus quagga
Mammals · Near threatened
3 clips name both of them
1.4 million views between them.
Level on mass: Horse 300 kg, Plains zebra 290 kg.
Tale of the tape
Body mass
300 kg
🐎 Horse · AnAge
290 kg
🦓 Plains zebra · COMBINE
Shoulder height
1.61 m
🐎 Horse
no figure yet
🦓 Plains zebra
Body length
no figure yet
🐎 Horse
2.54 m
🦓 Plains zebra · COMBINE
Top speed
64 km/h
🐎 Horse
no figure yet
🦓 Plains zebra
Maximum lifespan
57 yr
🐎 Horse · AnAge
40 yr
🦓 Plains zebra · 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 Equus (genus), home to 31 species.
They last shared an ancestor about 5.9 million years ago.
Estimates range from 4.3 to 8.2 million years; the figure above is the middle estimate.
About this estimate
Dates from Upham, Esselstyn & Jetz 2019, PLoS Biology 17:e3000494 (CC0).