🐔
Chicken
Gallus gallus domesticus
Birds · Least concern
vs
🐘
Elephant
Loxodonta africana
Mammals · Endangered
One clip names both of them
1,903 views between them.
Elephant outweighs Chicken 6070× — 4,565 kg against 0.8 kg.
Tale of the tape
Body mass
0.75 kg
🐔 Chicken · AVONET
4,565 kg
🐘 Elephant · COMBINE
Shoulder height
no figure yet
🐔 Chicken
2.8 m
🐘 Elephant
Body length
no figure yet
🐔 Chicken
7.5 m
🐘 Elephant · COMBINE
Top speed
no figure yet
🐔 Chicken
25 km/h
🐘 Elephant
Maximum lifespan
30 yr
🐔 Chicken · AnAge
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 Tetrapoda (superclass), home to 51,389 species.
We know what their shared ancestor was, but not when it lived — no dated family tree spans both of them yet.