🦬
American bison
Bison bison
Mammals · Near threatened
vs
🐘
Elephant
Loxodonta africana
Mammals · Endangered
One clip names both of them
2,656 views between them.
Elephant outweighs American bison 7.3× — 4,565 kg against 625 kg.
To scale
Grid at 1 m
1 m
2 m
3 m
Silhouettes: PhyloPic (CC0).
American bison
1.66 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
625 kg
🦬 American bison · COMBINE
4,565 kg
🐘 Elephant · COMBINE
Shoulder height
1.66 m
🦬 American bison
2.8 m
🐘 Elephant
Body length
2.9 m
🦬 American bison · COMBINE
7.5 m
🐘 Elephant · COMBINE
Top speed
52 km/h
🦬 American bison
25 km/h
🐘 Elephant
Maximum lifespan
33 yr
🦬 American bison · 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).