🦒
Giraffe
Giraffa camelopardalis
Mammals · Vulnerable
vs
🐆
Big cats
Pantherinae
Mammals
average across the group
42 clips name both of them
59 million views between them.
Giraffe outweighs Big cats 8.7× — 800 kg against 92 kg.
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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
Big cats
0.82 m
at the shoulder
Tale of the tape
Body mass
800 kg
🦒 Giraffe · COMBINE
92 kg
🐆 Big cats · group average
Shoulder height
3.06 m
🦒 Giraffe
0.82 m
🐆 Big cats · group average
Body length
4.45 m
🦒 Giraffe · COMBINE
1.79 m
🐆 Big cats · group average
Top speed
56 km/h
🦒 Giraffe
56 km/h
🐆 Big cats · group average
Bite force
no figure yet
🦒 Giraffe
1,194 N
🐆 Big cats · group average
Maximum lifespan
39 yr
🦒 Giraffe · COMBINE
27 yr
🐆 Big cats · group average
Bars are sized against the larger of the two figures. Bite force figures come from individual studies and vary a lot between sources.
Kamerára vett állatok
Igazi felvételek az oldal állatairól — ahogy vadásznak, ahogy harcolnak, és ahogy egyszerűen csak élnek.
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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.