🐃
Blue wildebeest
Connochaetes taurinus
Mammals · Least concern
vs
🦓
Plains zebra
Equus quagga
Mammals · Near threatened
11 clips name both of them
17 million views between them.
Plains zebra outweighs Blue wildebeest 1.6× — 290 kg against 181 kg.
Tale of the tape
Body mass
181 kg
🐃 Blue wildebeest · COMBINE
290 kg
🦓 Plains zebra · COMBINE
Body length
2.21 m
🐃 Blue wildebeest · COMBINE
2.54 m
🦓 Plains zebra · COMBINE
Maximum lifespan
25 yr
🐃 Blue wildebeest · COMBINE
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 Laurasiatheria (superorder), home to 4,193 species.
They last shared an ancestor about 61 million years ago.
Estimates range from 53 to 69 million years; the figure above is the middle estimate.
About this estimate
Dates from Upham, Esselstyn & Jetz 2019, PLoS Biology 17:e3000494 (CC0).