🐘
Elephant
Loxodonta africana
Mammals · Endangered
vs
🐺
Spotted hyena
Crocuta crocuta
Carnivores · Least concern
11 clips name both of them
981,543 views between them.
Elephant outweighs Spotted hyena 72× — 4,565 kg against 63 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
Spotted hyena
0.81 m
at the shoulder
Tale of the tape
Body mass
4,565 kg
🐘 Elephant · COMBINE
63 kg
🐺 Spotted hyena · COMBINE
Shoulder height
2.8 m
🐘 Elephant
0.81 m
🐺 Spotted hyena
Body length
7.5 m
🐘 Elephant · COMBINE
1.38 m
🐺 Spotted hyena · COMBINE
Top speed
25 km/h
🐘 Elephant
60 km/h
🐺 Spotted hyena
Bite force
no figure yet
🐘 Elephant
773 N
🐺 Spotted hyena
Maximum lifespan
80 yr
🐘 Elephant · COMBINE
41 yr
🐺 Spotted hyena · COMBINE
Bars are sized against the larger of the two figures. Bite force figures come from individual studies and vary a lot between sources.
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).