🐘
Elephant
Loxodonta africana
Mammals · Endangered
vs
🪿
Greylag Goose
Anser anser
Birds · Least concern
3 clips name both of them
3.9 million views between them.
Elephant outweighs Greylag Goose 1380× — 4,565 kg against 3.3 kg. Both figures are averages across males and females.
Tale of the tape
Body mass
4,565 kg
🐘 Elephant · COMBINE
3.3 kg
🪿 Greylag Goose · AVONET
Shoulder height
2.8 m
🐘 Elephant
no figure yet
🪿 Greylag Goose
Body length
7.5 m
🐘 Elephant · COMBINE
no figure yet
🪿 Greylag Goose
Top speed
25 km/h
🐘 Elephant
no figure yet
🪿 Greylag Goose
Maximum lifespan
80 yr
🐘 Elephant · COMBINE
31 yr
🪿 Greylag Goose · AnAge
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.