🐘
Elephant
Loxodonta africana
Mammals · Endangered
vs
🐾
Asian palm civet
Paradoxurus hermaphroditus
Carnivores · Least concern
One clip names both of them
458 views between them.
Elephant outweighs Asian palm civet 1440× — 4,565 kg against 3.2 kg.
Tale of the tape
Body mass
4,565 kg
🐘 Elephant · COMBINE
3.18 kg
🐾 Asian palm civet · COMBINE
Shoulder height
2.8 m
🐘 Elephant
no figure yet
🐾 Asian palm civet
Body length
7.5 m
🐘 Elephant · COMBINE
0.62 m
🐾 Asian palm civet · COMBINE
Top speed
25 km/h
🐘 Elephant
no figure yet
🐾 Asian palm civet
Maximum lifespan
80 yr
🐘 Elephant · COMBINE
25 yr
🐾 Asian palm civet · 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).