🐃
Cape buffalo
Syncerus caffer
Mammals · Near threatened
vs
🐆
Leopard
Panthera pardus
Carnivores · Vulnerable
4 clips name both of them
2.3 million views between them.
Cape buffalo outweighs Leopard 12× — 646 kg against 53.1 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), Lukasiniho (CC BY-NC-SA); others CC0.
Cape buffalo
1.35 m
at the shoulder
Human
1.70 m
full standing height
for scale
Leopard
0.72 m
at the shoulder
Tale of the tape
Body mass
646 kg
🐃 Cape buffalo · COMBINE
53 kg
🐆 Leopard · COMBINE
Shoulder height
1.35 m
🐃 Cape buffalo
0.72 m
🐆 Leopard
Body length
2.96 m
🐃 Cape buffalo · COMBINE
1.64 m
🐆 Leopard · COMBINE
Top speed
55 km/h
🐃 Cape buffalo
58 km/h
🐆 Leopard
Bite force
no figure yet
🐃 Cape buffalo
467 N
🐆 Leopard
Maximum lifespan
30 yr
🐃 Cape buffalo · COMBINE
27 yr
🐆 Leopard · COMBINE
Bars are sized against the larger of the two figures. Bite force figures come from individual studies and vary a lot between sources.
镜头下的动物
站内动物的实拍影像——捕猎、打斗，还有各自过日子的样子。
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).