🐘
Elephant
Loxodonta africana
Mammals · Endangered
vs
🐢
Leatherback turtle
Dermochelys coriacea
Reptiles · Vulnerable
3 clips name both of them
10,563 views between them.
Elephant outweighs Leatherback turtle 11× — 4,565 kg against 420 kg.
Tale of the tape
Body mass
4,565 kg
🐘 Elephant · COMBINE
420 kg
🐢 Leatherback turtle · AnAge
Shoulder height
2.8 m
🐘 Elephant
no figure yet
🐢 Leatherback turtle
Body length
7.5 m
🐘 Elephant · COMBINE
no figure yet
🐢 Leatherback turtle
Top speed
25 km/h
🐘 Elephant
no figure yet
🐢 Leatherback turtle
Maximum lifespan
80 yr
🐘 Elephant · COMBINE
30 yr
🐢 Leatherback turtle · AnAge
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 Tetrapoda (superclass), home to 51,389 species.
We know what their shared ancestor was, but not when it lived — no dated family tree spans both of them yet.