🐺
Coyote
Canis latrans
Carnivores · Least concern
vs
🐘
Elephant
Loxodonta africana
Mammals · Endangered
One clip names both of them
1,296 views between them.
Elephant outweighs Coyote 410× — 4,565 kg against 11.1 kg.
To scale
Grid at 1 m
1 m
2 m
3 m
Silhouettes: PhyloPic (CC0).
Coyote
0.52 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
11 kg
🐺 Coyote · COMBINE
4,565 kg
🐘 Elephant · COMBINE
Shoulder height
0.52 m
🐺 Coyote
2.8 m
🐘 Elephant
Body length
0.91 m
🐺 Coyote · COMBINE
7.5 m
🐘 Elephant · COMBINE
Top speed
no figure yet
🐺 Coyote
25 km/h
🐘 Elephant
Maximum lifespan
22 yr
🐺 Coyote · COMBINE
80 yr
🐘 Elephant · COMBINE
Bars are sized against the larger of the two figures.
حیوانات در قاب دوربین
فیلم واقعی از حیوانات این سایت — در حال شکار، درگیری و گذران زندگی روزمره.
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).