🐘
Elephant
Loxodonta africana
Mammals · Endangered
vs
🐾
Common warthog
Phacochoerus africanus
Mammals · Least concern
3 clips name both of them
44,621 views between them.
Elephant outweighs Common warthog 50× — 4,565 kg against 91.3 kg.
Tale of the tape
Body mass
4,565 kg
🐘 Elephant · COMBINE
91 kg
🐾 Common warthog · COMBINE
Shoulder height
2.8 m
🐘 Elephant
no figure yet
🐾 Common warthog
Body length
7.5 m
🐘 Elephant · COMBINE
1.36 m
🐾 Common warthog · COMBINE
Top speed
25 km/h
🐘 Elephant
no figure yet
🐾 Common warthog
Maximum lifespan
80 yr
🐘 Elephant · COMBINE
21 yr
🐾 Common warthog · 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).