🐘
Elephant
Loxodonta africana
Mammals · Endangered
vs
🐅
Tiger
Panthera tigris
Carnivores · Endangered
9 clips name both of them
2.3 million views between them.
Elephant outweighs Tiger 35× — 4,565 kg against 129 kg. Both figures are averages across males and females.
To scale
Grid at 1 m
1 m
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Silhouettes: PhyloPic — Gabriela Palomo-Munoz (CC BY-NC); others CC0.
Elephant
2.80 m
at the shoulder
Human
1.70 m
full standing height
for scale
Tiger
0.91 m
at the shoulder · measured standing
Tale of the tape
Body mass
4,565 kg
🐘 Elephant · COMBINE
129 kg
🐅 Tiger · COMBINE
Shoulder height
2.8 m
🐘 Elephant
0.91 m
🐅 Tiger
Body length
7.5 m
🐘 Elephant · COMBINE
2.31 m
🐅 Tiger · COMBINE
Top speed
25 km/h
🐘 Elephant
54 km/h
🐅 Tiger
Bite force
no figure yet
🐘 Elephant
1,525 N
🐅 Tiger
Maximum lifespan
80 yr
🐘 Elephant · COMBINE
26 yr
🐅 Tiger · COMBINE
Bars are sized against the larger of the two figures. Bite force figures come from individual studies and vary a lot between sources.
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).