🐘
Elephant
Loxodonta africana
Mammals · Endangered
vs
🦌
Reindeer
Rangifer tarandus
Mammals · Vulnerable
One clip names both of them
209 views between them.
Elephant outweighs Reindeer 45× — 4,565 kg against 101 kg.
To scale
Grid at 1 m
1 m
2 m
3 m
Silhouettes: PhyloPic (CC0).
Elephant
2.80 m
at the shoulder
Human
1.70 m
full standing height
for scale
Reindeer
1.22 m
at the shoulder
Tale of the tape
Body mass
4,565 kg
🐘 Elephant · COMBINE
101 kg
🦌 Reindeer · COMBINE
Shoulder height
2.8 m
🐘 Elephant
1.22 m
🦌 Reindeer
Body length
7.5 m
🐘 Elephant · COMBINE
2.21 m
🦌 Reindeer · COMBINE
Top speed
25 km/h
🐘 Elephant
no figure yet
🦌 Reindeer
Maximum lifespan
80 yr
🐘 Elephant · COMBINE
22 yr
🦌 Reindeer · 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).