🐊
Nile crocodile
Crocodylus niloticus
Reptiles · Least concern
vs
🦒
Giraffe
Giraffa camelopardalis
Mammals · Vulnerable
2 clips name both of them
696,355 views between them.
Giraffe outweighs Nile crocodile 8.5× — 800 kg against 94.2 kg.
Tale of the tape
Body mass
94 kg
🐊 Nile crocodile · AnAge
800 kg
🦒 Giraffe · COMBINE
Shoulder height
no figure yet
🐊 Nile crocodile
3.06 m
🦒 Giraffe
Body length
5 m
🐊 Nile crocodile · ReptTraits
4.45 m
🦒 Giraffe · COMBINE
Top speed
9.86 km/h
🐊 Nile crocodile
56 km/h
🦒 Giraffe
Bite force
3,043 N
🐊 Nile crocodile
no figure yet
🦒 Giraffe
Maximum lifespan
56 yr
🐊 Nile crocodile · AnAge
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 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.