🐘
Asian elephant
Elephas maximus
Mammals · Endangered
vs
🐄
Cow
Bos taurus
Mammals
4 clips name both of them
115,291 views between them.
Asian elephant outweighs Cow 4.3× — 3,220 kg against 750 kg.
To scale
Grid at 1 m
1 m
2 m
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Silhouettes: PhyloPic — T. Michael Keesey (CC BY), DFoidl (modified by T. Michael Keesey) (CC BY-SA); others CC0.
Asian elephant
2.55 m
at the shoulder
Human
1.70 m
full standing height
for scale
Cow
1.28 m
at the shoulder
Tale of the tape
Body mass
3,220 kg
🐘 Asian elephant · COMBINE
750 kg
🐄 Cow · AnAge
Shoulder height
2.55 m
🐘 Asian elephant
1.28 m
🐄 Cow
Body length
4.16 m
🐘 Asian elephant · COMBINE
no figure yet
🐄 Cow
Maximum lifespan
80 yr
🐘 Asian elephant · COMBINE
20 yr
🐄 Cow · AnAge
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).