🦒
Giraffe
Giraffa camelopardalis
Mammals · Vulnerable
vs
🦛
Hippopotamus
Hippopotamus amphibius
Mammals · Vulnerable
One clip names both of them
55 views between them.
Hippopotamus outweighs Giraffe 3.3× — 2,640 kg against 800 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
for scale
Hippopotamus
1.47 m
at the shoulder
Tale of the tape
Body mass
800 kg
🦒 Giraffe · COMBINE
2,640 kg
🦛 Hippopotamus · COMBINE
Shoulder height
3.06 m
🦒 Giraffe
1.47 m
🦛 Hippopotamus
Body length
4.45 m
🦒 Giraffe · COMBINE
5.05 m
🦛 Hippopotamus · COMBINE
Top speed
56 km/h
🦒 Giraffe
24 km/h
🦛 Hippopotamus
Maximum lifespan
39 yr
🦒 Giraffe · COMBINE
61 yr
🦛 Hippopotamus · 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 Artiodactyla (order), home to 848 species.
We know what their shared ancestor was, but not when it lived — no dated family tree spans both of them yet.