🐺
African wild dog
Lycaon pictus
Carnivores · Endangered
vs
🐘
Elephant
Loxodonta africana
Mammals · Endangered
9 clips name both of them
311,523 views between them.
Elephant outweighs African wild dog 190× — 4,565 kg against 24.3 kg.
To scale
Grid at 1 m
1 m
2 m
3 m
Silhouettes: PhyloPic (CC0).
African wild dog
0.69 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
24 kg
🐺 African wild dog · COMBINE
4,565 kg
🐘 Elephant · COMBINE
Shoulder height
0.69 m
🐺 African wild dog
2.8 m
🐘 Elephant
Body length
1.02 m
🐺 African wild dog · COMBINE
7.5 m
🐘 Elephant · COMBINE
Top speed
no figure yet
🐺 African wild dog
25 km/h
🐘 Elephant
Maximum lifespan
17 yr
🐺 African wild dog · COMBINE
80 yr
🐘 Elephant · COMBINE
Bars are sized against the larger of the two figures.
Animals caught on camera
Real footage of the animals on this site — hunting, fighting, and getting on with it.
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).