🐘
Elephant
Loxodonta africana
Mammals · Endangered
vs
🦛
Hippopotamus
Hippopotamus amphibius
Mammals · Vulnerable
14 clips name both of them
14 million views between them.
Elephant outweighs Hippopotamus 1.7× — 4,565 kg against 2,640 kg.
To scale
Grid at 1 m
1 m
2 m
3 m
Silhouettes: PhyloPic (CC0).
Elephant
2.80 m
at the shoulder
Human
1.70 m
full standing height
for scale
Hippopotamus
1.47 m
at the shoulder
Tale of the tape
Body mass
4,565 kg
🐘 Elephant · COMBINE
2,640 kg
🦛 Hippopotamus · COMBINE
Shoulder height
2.8 m
🐘 Elephant
1.47 m
🦛 Hippopotamus
Body length
7.5 m
🐘 Elephant · COMBINE
5.05 m
🦛 Hippopotamus · COMBINE
Top speed
25 km/h
🐘 Elephant
24 km/h
🦛 Hippopotamus
Maximum lifespan
80 yr
🐘 Elephant · COMBINE
61 yr
🦛 Hippopotamus · 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.