🐘
Elephant
Loxodonta africana
Mammals · Endangered
vs
🐋
Blue whale
Balaenoptera musculus
Marine mammals · Endangered
2 clips name both of them
2.5 million views between them.
Blue whale outweighs Elephant 33× — 149,000 kg against 4,565 kg.
Tale of the tape
Body mass
4,565 kg
🐘 Elephant · COMBINE
149,000 kg
🐋 Blue whale · COMBINE
Shoulder height
2.8 m
🐘 Elephant
no figure yet
🐋 Blue whale
Body length
7.5 m
🐘 Elephant · COMBINE
30 m
🐋 Blue whale · COMBINE
Top speed
25 km/h
🐘 Elephant
no figure yet
🐋 Blue whale
Maximum lifespan
80 yr
🐘 Elephant · COMBINE
110 yr
🐋 Blue whale · 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).