🐘
Elephant
Loxodonta africana
Mammals · Endangered
vs
🦩
Great Egret
Ardea alba
Birds · Least concern
One clip names both of them
183 views between them.
Elephant outweighs Great Egret 5240× — 4,565 kg against 0.9 kg.
Tale of the tape
Body mass
4,565 kg
🐘 Elephant · COMBINE
0.87 kg
🦩 Great Egret · AVONET
Shoulder height
2.8 m
🐘 Elephant
no figure yet
🦩 Great Egret
Body length
7.5 m
🐘 Elephant · COMBINE
no figure yet
🦩 Great Egret
Top speed
25 km/h
🐘 Elephant
no figure yet
🦩 Great Egret
Maximum lifespan
80 yr
🐘 Elephant · COMBINE
23 yr
🦩 Great Egret · 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.