🐘
Elephant
Loxodonta africana
Mammals · Endangered
vs
🐦
Griffon Vulture
Gyps fulvus
Birds · Least concern
3 clips name both of them
6,004 views between them.
Elephant outweighs Griffon Vulture 610× — 4,565 kg against 7.4 kg.
Tale of the tape
Body mass
4,565 kg
🐘 Elephant · COMBINE
7.44 kg
🐦 Griffon Vulture · AVONET
Shoulder height
2.8 m
🐘 Elephant
no figure yet
🐦 Griffon Vulture
Body length
7.5 m
🐘 Elephant · COMBINE
no figure yet
🐦 Griffon Vulture
Top speed
25 km/h
🐘 Elephant
no figure yet
🐦 Griffon Vulture
Maximum lifespan
80 yr
🐘 Elephant · COMBINE
41 yr
🐦 Griffon Vulture · 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.