🐘
Elephant
Loxodonta africana
Mammals · Endangered
vs
🐾
Golden jackal
Canis aureus
Carnivores · Least concern
One clip names both of them
1,206 views between them.
Elephant outweighs Golden jackal 420× — 4,565 kg against 11 kg.
Tale of the tape
Body mass
4,565 kg
🐘 Elephant · COMBINE
11 kg
🐾 Golden jackal · COMBINE
Shoulder height
2.8 m
🐘 Elephant
no figure yet
🐾 Golden jackal
Body length
7.5 m
🐘 Elephant · COMBINE
0.94 m
🐾 Golden jackal · COMBINE
Top speed
25 km/h
🐘 Elephant
no figure yet
🐾 Golden jackal
Maximum lifespan
80 yr
🐘 Elephant · COMBINE
19 yr
🐾 Golden jackal · 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).