🐆
Cheetah
Acinonyx jubatus
Carnivores · Vulnerable
vs
🦒
Giraffe
Giraffa camelopardalis
Mammals · Vulnerable
2 clips name both of them
1,311 views between them.
Giraffe outweighs Cheetah 16× — 800 kg against 50.6 kg. Both figures are averages across males and females.
To scale
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Silhouettes: PhyloPic — Bernard Dupont (photograph) and T. Michael Keesey (tracing) (CC BY-SA); others CC0.
Cheetah
0.80 m
at the shoulder
Human
1.70 m
full standing height
for scale
Giraffe
5.28 m
full standing height
Tale of the tape
Body mass
51 kg
🐆 Cheetah · COMBINE
800 kg
🦒 Giraffe · COMBINE
Shoulder height
0.8 m
🐆 Cheetah
3.06 m
🦒 Giraffe
Body length
1.49 m
🐆 Cheetah · COMBINE
4.45 m
🦒 Giraffe · COMBINE
Top speed
104 km/h
🐆 Cheetah
56 km/h
🦒 Giraffe
Bite force
472 N
🐆 Cheetah
no figure yet
🦒 Giraffe
Maximum lifespan
20 yr
🐆 Cheetah · COMBINE
39 yr
🦒 Giraffe · COMBINE
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 Laurasiatheria (superorder), home to 4,193 species.
We know what their shared ancestor was, but not when it lived — no dated family tree spans both of them yet.