🐃
Cape buffalo
Syncerus caffer
Mammals · Near threatened
vs
🐐
Goat
Capra aegagrus hircus
Mammals · Not evaluated
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Cape buffalo outweighs Goat 11× — 646 kg against 61 kg.
To scale
Grid at 50 cm
50 cm
1 m
1.5 m
2 m
Silhouettes: PhyloPic — Jan A. Venter, Herbert H. T. Prins, David A. Balfour & Rob Slotow (vectorized by T. Michael Keesey) (CC BY); others CC0.
Cape buffalo
1.35 m
at the shoulder
Human
1.70 m
full standing height
for scale
Goat
0.64 m
at the shoulder
Tale of the tape
Body mass
646 kg
🐃 Cape buffalo · COMBINE
61 kg
🐐 Goat · AnAge
Shoulder height
1.35 m
🐃 Cape buffalo
0.64 m
🐐 Goat
Body length
2.96 m
🐃 Cape buffalo · COMBINE
no figure yet
🐐 Goat
Top speed
55 km/h
🐃 Cape buffalo
no figure yet
🐐 Goat
Maximum lifespan
30 yr
🐃 Cape buffalo · COMBINE
21 yr
🐐 Goat · AnAge
Bars are sized against the larger of the two figures.
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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).