🐘
Elephant
Loxodonta africana
Mammals · Endangered
vs
🐱
Serval
Leptailurus serval
Carnivores · Least concern
One clip names both of them
756 views between them.
Elephant outweighs Serval 380× — 4,565 kg against 12 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
Serval
0.60 m
at the shoulder
Tale of the tape
Body mass
4,565 kg
🐘 Elephant · COMBINE
12 kg
🐱 Serval · COMBINE
Shoulder height
2.8 m
🐘 Elephant
0.6 m
🐱 Serval
Body length
7.5 m
🐘 Elephant · COMBINE
0.92 m
🐱 Serval · COMBINE
Top speed
25 km/h
🐘 Elephant
no figure yet
🐱 Serval
Maximum lifespan
80 yr
🐘 Elephant · COMBINE
23 yr
🐱 Serval · 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).