🐆
Cheetah
Acinonyx jubatus
Carnivores · Vulnerable
vs
🦒
Giraffe
Giraffa camelopardalis
Mammals · Vulnerable
2 clips name both of them
1,311 views between them.
Giraffe outweighs Cheetah 16× — 800 kg against 50.6 kg. Both figures are averages across males and females.
To scale
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Silhouettes: PhyloPic — Bernard Dupont (photograph) and T. Michael Keesey (tracing) (CC BY-SA); others CC0.
Cheetah
0.80 m
at the shoulder
Human
1.70 m
full standing height
for scale
Giraffe
5.28 m
full standing height
Tale of the tape
Body mass
51 kg
🐆 Cheetah · COMBINE
800 kg
🦒 Giraffe · COMBINE
Shoulder height
0.8 m
🐆 Cheetah
3.06 m
🦒 Giraffe
Body length
1.49 m
🐆 Cheetah · COMBINE
4.45 m
🦒 Giraffe · COMBINE
Top speed
104 km/h
🐆 Cheetah
56 km/h
🦒 Giraffe
Bite force
472 N
🐆 Cheetah
no figure yet
🦒 Giraffe
Maximum lifespan
20 yr
🐆 Cheetah · COMBINE
39 yr
🦒 Giraffe · COMBINE
Bars are sized against the larger of the two figures. Bite force figures come from individual studies and vary a lot between sources.
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 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.