🐘
Elephant
Loxodonta africana
Mammals · Endangered
vs
🦩
Common ostrich
Struthio camelus
Birds · Least concern
One clip names both of them
1,258 views between them.
Elephant outweighs Common ostrich 41× — 4,565 kg against 111 kg. Both figures are averages across males and females.
To scale
Grid at 1 m
1 m
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Silhouettes: PhyloPic — Matt Martyniuk (vectorized by T. Michael Keesey) (CC BY-SA); others CC0.
Elephant
2.80 m
at the shoulder
Human
1.70 m
full standing height
for scale
Common ostrich
2.75 m
full standing height
Tale of the tape
Body mass
4,565 kg
🐘 Elephant · COMBINE
111 kg
🦩 Common ostrich · AVONET
Shoulder height
2.8 m
🐘 Elephant
no figure yet
🦩 Common ostrich
Body length
7.5 m
🐘 Elephant · COMBINE
no figure yet
🦩 Common ostrich
Top speed
25 km/h
🐘 Elephant
no figure yet
🦩 Common ostrich
Maximum lifespan
80 yr
🐘 Elephant · COMBINE
50 yr
🦩 Common ostrich · 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 Tetrapoda (superclass), home to 51,389 species.
We know what their shared ancestor was, but not when it lived — no dated family tree spans both of them yet.