🐕
Dhole
Cuon alpinus
Carnivores · Endangered
vs
🐘
Elephant
Loxodonta africana
Mammals · Endangered
One clip names both of them
13,497 views between them.
Elephant outweighs Dhole 290× — 4,565 kg against 15.8 kg.
To scale
Grid at 1 m
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Silhouettes: PhyloPic — AnAgnosticGod (vectorized by T. Michael Keesey) (CC BY-NC-SA); others CC0.
Dhole
0.46 m
at the shoulder
Human
1.70 m
full standing height
for scale
Elephant
2.80 m
at the shoulder
Tale of the tape
Body mass
16 kg
🐕 Dhole · COMBINE
4,565 kg
🐘 Elephant · COMBINE
Shoulder height
0.46 m
🐕 Dhole
2.8 m
🐘 Elephant
Body length
1.06 m
🐕 Dhole · COMBINE
7.5 m
🐘 Elephant · COMBINE
Top speed
no figure yet
🐕 Dhole
25 km/h
🐘 Elephant
Maximum lifespan
16 yr
🐕 Dhole · COMBINE
80 yr
🐘 Elephant · COMBINE
Bars are sized against the larger of the two figures.
Animales captados por la cámara
Imágenes reales de los animales de este sitio: cazando, peleando y haciendo su vida.
Shared ancestry
The closest group they share is Theria (subclass), home to 9,319 species.
They last shared an ancestor about 91 million years ago.
Estimates range from 78 to 117 million years; the figure above is the middle estimate.
About this estimate
Dates from Upham, Esselstyn & Jetz 2019, PLoS Biology 17:e3000494 (CC0).