🐘
Elephant
Loxodonta africana
Mammals · Endangered
vs
🦒
Giraffe
Giraffa camelopardalis
Mammals · Vulnerable
12 clips name both of them
8.6 million views between them.
Elephant outweighs Giraffe 5.7× — 4,565 kg against 800 kg.
To scale
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Silhouettes: PhyloPic — Bernard Dupont (photograph) and T. Michael Keesey (tracing) (CC BY-SA); others CC0.
Elephant
2.80 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
4,565 kg
🐘 Elephant · COMBINE
800 kg
🦒 Giraffe · COMBINE
Shoulder height
2.8 m
🐘 Elephant
3.06 m
🦒 Giraffe
Body length
7.5 m
🐘 Elephant · COMBINE
4.45 m
🦒 Giraffe · COMBINE
Top speed
25 km/h
🐘 Elephant
56 km/h
🦒 Giraffe
Maximum lifespan
80 yr
🐘 Elephant · COMBINE
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 Theria (subclass), home to 9,319 species.
We know what their shared ancestor was, but not when it lived — no dated family tree spans both of them yet.