🐃
Cape buffalo
Syncerus caffer
Mammals · Near threatened
vs
🦛
Hippopotamus
Hippopotamus amphibius
Mammals · Vulnerable
5 clips name both of them
454,008 views between them.
Hippopotamus outweighs Cape buffalo 4.1× — 2,640 kg against 646 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
Hippopotamus
1.47 m
at the shoulder
Tale of the tape
Body mass
646 kg
🐃 Cape buffalo · COMBINE
2,640 kg
🦛 Hippopotamus · COMBINE
Shoulder height
1.35 m
🐃 Cape buffalo
1.47 m
🦛 Hippopotamus
Body length
2.96 m
🐃 Cape buffalo · COMBINE
5.05 m
🦛 Hippopotamus · COMBINE
Top speed
55 km/h
🐃 Cape buffalo
24 km/h
🦛 Hippopotamus
Maximum lifespan
30 yr
🐃 Cape buffalo · COMBINE
61 yr
🦛 Hippopotamus · COMBINE
Bars are sized against the larger of the two figures.
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Shared ancestry
The closest group they share is Artiodactyla (order), home to 848 species.
We know what their shared ancestor was, but not when it lived — no dated family tree spans both of them yet.