🫏
Donkey
Equus asinus
Mammals
vs
🦒
Giraffe
Giraffa camelopardalis
Mammals · Vulnerable
One clip names both of them
88 views between them.
Giraffe outweighs Donkey 4.8× — 800 kg against 165 kg.
To scale
Grid at 1 m
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Silhouettes: PhyloPic — Maija Karala (CC BY-NC-SA), Bernard Dupont (photograph) and T. Michael Keesey (tracing) (CC BY-SA); others CC0.
Donkey
1.25 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
165 kg
🫏 Donkey · AnAge
800 kg
🦒 Giraffe · COMBINE
Shoulder height
1.25 m
🫏 Donkey
3.06 m
🦒 Giraffe
Body length
no figure yet
🫏 Donkey
4.45 m
🦒 Giraffe · COMBINE
Top speed
no figure yet
🫏 Donkey
56 km/h
🦒 Giraffe
Maximum lifespan
47 yr
🫏 Donkey · AnAge
39 yr
🦒 Giraffe · 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 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.