🐆
Cheetah
Acinonyx jubatus
Carnivores · Vulnerable
vs
🐄
Cow
Bos taurus
Mammals
One clip names both of them
683 views between them.
Cow outweighs Cheetah 15× — 750 kg against 50.6 kg. Both figures are averages across males and females.
To scale
Grid at 50 cm
50 cm
1 m
1.5 m
2 m
Silhouettes: PhyloPic — DFoidl (modified by T. Michael Keesey) (CC BY-SA); others CC0.
Cheetah
0.80 m
at the shoulder
Human
1.70 m
full standing height
for scale
Cow
1.28 m
at the shoulder
Tale of the tape
Body mass
51 kg
🐆 Cheetah · COMBINE
750 kg
🐄 Cow · AnAge
Shoulder height
0.8 m
🐆 Cheetah
1.28 m
🐄 Cow
Body length
1.49 m
🐆 Cheetah · COMBINE
no figure yet
🐄 Cow
Top speed
104 km/h
🐆 Cheetah
no figure yet
🐄 Cow
Bite force
472 N
🐆 Cheetah
no figure yet
🐄 Cow
Maximum lifespan
20 yr
🐆 Cheetah · COMBINE
20 yr
🐄 Cow · AnAge
Bars are sized against the larger of the two figures. Bite force figures come from individual studies and vary a lot between sources.
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Shared ancestry
The closest group they share is Laurasiatheria (superorder), home to 4,193 species.
They last shared an ancestor about 64 million years ago.
Estimates range from 58 to 76 million years; the figure above is the middle estimate.
About this estimate
Dates from Upham, Esselstyn & Jetz 2019, PLoS Biology 17:e3000494 (CC0).