🦒
Giraffe
Giraffa camelopardalis
Mammals · Vulnerable
vs
🐆
Leopard
Panthera pardus
Carnivores · Vulnerable
5 clips name both of them
1.3 million views between them.
Giraffe outweighs Leopard 15× — 800 kg against 53.1 kg.
To scale
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Silhouettes: PhyloPic — Bernard Dupont (photograph) and T. Michael Keesey (tracing) (CC BY-SA), Lukasiniho (CC BY-NC-SA); others CC0.
Giraffe
5.28 m
full standing height
Human
1.70 m
full standing height
for scale
Leopard
0.72 m
at the shoulder
Tale of the tape
Body mass
800 kg
🦒 Giraffe · COMBINE
53 kg
🐆 Leopard · COMBINE
Shoulder height
3.06 m
🦒 Giraffe
0.72 m
🐆 Leopard
Body length
4.45 m
🦒 Giraffe · COMBINE
1.64 m
🐆 Leopard · COMBINE
Top speed
56 km/h
🦒 Giraffe
58 km/h
🐆 Leopard
Bite force
no figure yet
🦒 Giraffe
467 N
🐆 Leopard
Maximum lifespan
39 yr
🦒 Giraffe · 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.
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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.