🦒
Giraffe
Giraffa camelopardalis
Mammals · Vulnerable
vs
🧍
Human
Homo sapiens
Primates · Least concern
2 clips name both of them
50 million views between them.
Giraffe outweighs Human 13× — 800 kg against 62 kg.
To scale
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Silhouettes: PhyloPic — Bernard Dupont (photograph) and T. Michael Keesey (tracing) (CC BY-SA); others CC0.
Giraffe
5.28 m
full standing height
Human
1.70 m
full standing height
Tale of the tape
Body mass
800 kg
🦒 Giraffe · COMBINE
62 kg
🧍 Human · AnAge
Shoulder height
3.06 m
🦒 Giraffe
no figure yet
🧍 Human
Body length
4.45 m
🦒 Giraffe · COMBINE
no figure yet
🧍 Human
Top speed
56 km/h
🦒 Giraffe
38 km/h
🧍 Human
Bite force
no figure yet
🦒 Giraffe
843 N
🧍 Human
Maximum lifespan
39 yr
🦒 Giraffe · COMBINE
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.
We know what their shared ancestor was, but not when it lived — no dated family tree spans both of them yet.