🐘
Elephant
Loxodonta africana
Mammals · Endangered
vs
🦡
Honey badger
Mellivora capensis
Carnivores · Least concern
3 clips name both of them
41 million views between them.
Elephant outweighs Honey badger 460× — 4,565 kg against 10 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
Honey badger
0.26 m
at the shoulder
Tale of the tape
Body mass
4,565 kg
🐘 Elephant · COMBINE
10 kg
🦡 Honey badger · COMBINE
Shoulder height
2.8 m
🐘 Elephant
0.26 m
🦡 Honey badger
Body length
7.5 m
🐘 Elephant · COMBINE
0.73 m
🦡 Honey badger · COMBINE
Top speed
25 km/h
🐘 Elephant
no figure yet
🦡 Honey badger
Maximum lifespan
80 yr
🐘 Elephant · COMBINE
31 yr
🦡 Honey badger · 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.
They last shared an ancestor about 91 million years ago.
Estimates range from 78 to 117 million years; the figure above is the middle estimate.
About this estimate
Dates from Upham, Esselstyn & Jetz 2019, PLoS Biology 17:e3000494 (CC0).