🐘
Elephant
Loxodonta africana
Mammals · Endangered
vs
🐎
Horse
Equus ferus caballus
Mammals
One clip names both of them
4 million views between them.
Elephant outweighs Horse 15× — 4,565 kg against 300 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
Horse
1.61 m
at the shoulder
Tale of the tape
Body mass
4,565 kg
🐘 Elephant · COMBINE
300 kg
🐎 Horse · AnAge
Shoulder height
2.8 m
🐘 Elephant
1.61 m
🐎 Horse
Body length
7.5 m
🐘 Elephant · COMBINE
no figure yet
🐎 Horse
Top speed
25 km/h
🐘 Elephant
64 km/h
🐎 Horse
Maximum lifespan
80 yr
🐘 Elephant · COMBINE
57 yr
🐎 Horse · 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 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).