🐘
Elephant
Loxodonta africana
Mammals · Endangered
vs
🐆
Big cats
Pantherinae
Mammals
average across the group
9 clips name both of them
2.3 million views between them.
Elephant outweighs Big cats 50× — 4,565 kg against 92 kg.
To scale
Grid at 1 m
1 m
2 m
3 m
Silhouettes: PhyloPic (CC0).
Elephant
2.80 m
at the shoulder
Human
1.70 m
full standing height
for scale
Big cats
0.82 m
at the shoulder
Tale of the tape
Body mass
4,565 kg
🐘 Elephant · COMBINE
92 kg
🐆 Big cats · group average
Shoulder height
2.8 m
🐘 Elephant
0.82 m
🐆 Big cats · group average
Body length
7.5 m
🐘 Elephant · COMBINE
1.79 m
🐆 Big cats · group average
Top speed
25 km/h
🐘 Elephant
56 km/h
🐆 Big cats · group average
Bite force
no figure yet
🐘 Elephant
1,194 N
🐆 Big cats · group average
Maximum lifespan
80 yr
🐘 Elephant · COMBINE
27 yr
🐆 Big cats · group average
Bars are sized against the larger of the two figures. Bite force figures come from individual studies and vary a lot between sources.
Животни, уловени на камера
Истински кадри с животните от сайта — как ловуват, как се бият и как просто си живеят.
Shared ancestry
The closest group they share is Theria (subclass), home to 9,319 species.
We know what their shared ancestor was, but not when it lived — no dated family tree spans both of them yet.