🐄
Cow
Bos taurus
Mammals
vs
🐦
Emu
Dromaius novaehollandiae
Birds · Least concern
2 clips name both of them
36,006 views between them.
Cow outweighs Emu 22× — 750 kg against 34.1 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), Darren Naish (vectorize by T. Michael Keesey) (CC BY); others CC0.
Cow
1.28 m
at the shoulder
Human
1.70 m
full standing height
for scale
Emu
1.75 m
full standing height
Tale of the tape
Body mass
750 kg
🐄 Cow · AnAge
34 kg
🐦 Emu · AVONET
Shoulder height
1.28 m
🐄 Cow
no figure yet
🐦 Emu
Maximum lifespan
20 yr
🐄 Cow · AnAge
17 yr
🐦 Emu · AnAge
Bars are sized against the larger of the two figures.
Animais flagrados pela câmera
Imagens reais dos animais deste site — caçando, brigando e levando a vida.
Shared ancestry
The closest group they share is Tetrapoda (superclass), home to 51,389 species.
We know what their shared ancestor was, but not when it lived — no dated family tree spans both of them yet.