🐘
Elephant
Loxodonta africana
Mammals · Endangered
vs
🐆
Jaguar
Panthera onca
Carnivores · Near threatened
One clip names both of them
86,470 views between them.
Elephant outweighs Jaguar 56× — 4,565 kg against 81.2 kg.
To scale
Grid at 1 m
1 m
2 m
3 m
Silhouettes: PhyloPic — Lukasiniho (CC BY-NC-SA); others CC0.
Elephant
2.80 m
at the shoulder
Human
1.70 m
full standing height
for scale
Jaguar
0.71 m
at the shoulder
Tale of the tape
Body mass
4,565 kg
🐘 Elephant · COMBINE
81 kg
🐆 Jaguar · COMBINE
Shoulder height
2.8 m
🐘 Elephant
0.71 m
🐆 Jaguar
Body length
7.5 m
🐘 Elephant · COMBINE
1.59 m
🐆 Jaguar · COMBINE
Top speed
25 km/h
🐘 Elephant
no figure yet
🐆 Jaguar
Bite force
no figure yet
🐘 Elephant
1,014 N
🐆 Jaguar
Maximum lifespan
80 yr
🐘 Elephant · COMBINE
28 yr
🐆 Jaguar · 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).