🐘
Elephant
Loxodonta africana
Mammals · Endangered
vs
🐾
Sloth bear
Melursus ursinus
Carnivores · Vulnerable
4 clips name both of them
19,425 views between them.
Elephant outweighs Sloth bear 46× — 4,565 kg against 100 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
Sloth bear
0.75 m
at the shoulder
Tale of the tape
Body mass
4,565 kg
🐘 Elephant · COMBINE
100 kg
🐾 Sloth bear · COMBINE
Shoulder height
2.8 m
🐘 Elephant
0.75 m
🐾 Sloth bear
Body length
7.5 m
🐘 Elephant · COMBINE
1.7 m
🐾 Sloth bear · COMBINE
Top speed
25 km/h
🐘 Elephant
no figure yet
🐾 Sloth bear
Maximum lifespan
80 yr
🐘 Elephant · COMBINE
40 yr
🐾 Sloth bear · 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).