🐘
Elephant
Loxodonta africana
Mammals · Endangered
vs
🐒
Rhesus macaque
Macaca mulatta
Primates · Least concern
One clip names both of them
292 views between them.
Elephant outweighs Rhesus macaque 690× — 4,565 kg against 6.6 kg.
Tale of the tape
Body mass
4,565 kg
🐘 Elephant · COMBINE
6.61 kg
🐒 Rhesus macaque · COMBINE
Shoulder height
2.8 m
🐘 Elephant
no figure yet
🐒 Rhesus macaque
Body length
7.5 m
🐘 Elephant · COMBINE
0.66 m
🐒 Rhesus macaque · COMBINE
Top speed
25 km/h
🐘 Elephant
no figure yet
🐒 Rhesus macaque
Maximum lifespan
80 yr
🐘 Elephant · COMBINE
40 yr
🐒 Rhesus macaque · 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).