🐄
Cow
Bos taurus
Mammals
vs
🦛
Hippopotamus
Hippopotamus amphibius
Mammals · Vulnerable
3 clips name both of them
4.8 million views between them.
Hippopotamus outweighs Cow 3.5× — 2,640 kg against 750 kg.
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.
Cow
1.28 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
750 kg
🐄 Cow · AnAge
2,640 kg
🦛 Hippopotamus · COMBINE
Shoulder height
1.28 m
🐄 Cow
1.47 m
🦛 Hippopotamus
Body length
no figure yet
🐄 Cow
5.05 m
🦛 Hippopotamus · COMBINE
Top speed
no figure yet
🐄 Cow
24 km/h
🦛 Hippopotamus
Maximum lifespan
20 yr
🐄 Cow · AnAge
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.