🐄
Cow
Bos taurus
Mammals
vs
🧍
Human
Homo sapiens
Primates · Least concern
9 clips name both of them
17 million views between them.
Cow outweighs Human 12× — 750 kg against 62 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
Tale of the tape
Body mass
750 kg
🐄 Cow · AnAge
62 kg
🧍 Human · AnAge
Shoulder height
1.28 m
🐄 Cow
no figure yet
🧍 Human
Top speed
no figure yet
🐄 Cow
38 km/h
🧍 Human
Bite force
no figure yet
🐄 Cow
843 N
🧍 Human
Maximum lifespan
20 yr
🐄 Cow · AnAge
123 yr
🧍 Human · 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 Theria (subclass), home to 9,319 species.
They last shared an ancestor about 81 million years ago.
Estimates range from 74 to 89 million years; the figure above is the middle estimate.
About this estimate
Dates from Upham, Esselstyn & Jetz 2019, PLoS Biology 17:e3000494 (CC0).