🐘
Elephant
Loxodonta africana
Mammals · Endangered
vs
🦩
Great Egret
Ardea alba
Birds · Least concern
One clip names both of them
183 views between them.
Elephant outweighs Great Egret 5240× — 4,565 kg against 0.9 kg.
Tale of the tape
Body mass
4,565 kg
🐘 Elephant · COMBINE
0.87 kg
🦩 Great Egret · AVONET
Shoulder height
2.8 m
🐘 Elephant
no figure yet
🦩 Great Egret
Body length
7.5 m
🐘 Elephant · COMBINE
no figure yet
🦩 Great Egret
Top speed
25 km/h
🐘 Elephant
no figure yet
🦩 Great Egret
Maximum lifespan
80 yr
🐘 Elephant · COMBINE
23 yr
🦩 Great Egret · AnAge
Bars are sized against the larger of the two figures.
Les animaux pris sur le vif
De vraies images des animaux de ce site — à la chasse, au combat, ou vaquant simplement à leurs occupations.
Shared ancestry
The closest group they share is Tetrapoda (superclass), home to 51,389 species.
We know what their shared ancestor was, but not when it lived — no dated family tree spans both of them yet.