🐘
Elephant
Loxodonta africana
Mammals · Endangered
vs
🐃
Blue wildebeest
Connochaetes taurinus
Mammals · Least concern
7 clips name both of them
35,860 views between them.
Elephant outweighs Blue wildebeest 25× — 4,565 kg against 181 kg.
Tale of the tape
Body mass
4,565 kg
🐘 Elephant · COMBINE
181 kg
🐃 Blue wildebeest · COMBINE
Shoulder height
2.8 m
🐘 Elephant
no figure yet
🐃 Blue wildebeest
Body length
7.5 m
🐘 Elephant · COMBINE
2.21 m
🐃 Blue wildebeest · COMBINE
Top speed
25 km/h
🐘 Elephant
no figure yet
🐃 Blue wildebeest
Maximum lifespan
80 yr
🐘 Elephant · COMBINE
25 yr
🐃 Blue wildebeest · 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).