🐘
Elephant
Loxodonta africana
Mammals · Endangered
vs
🦓
Plains zebra
Equus quagga
Mammals · Near threatened
7 clips name both of them
17,914 views between them.
Elephant outweighs Plains zebra 16× — 4,565 kg against 290 kg.
Tale of the tape
Body mass
4,565 kg
🐘 Elephant · COMBINE
290 kg
🦓 Plains zebra · COMBINE
Shoulder height
2.8 m
🐘 Elephant
no figure yet
🦓 Plains zebra
Body length
7.5 m
🐘 Elephant · COMBINE
2.54 m
🦓 Plains zebra · COMBINE
Top speed
25 km/h
🐘 Elephant
no figure yet
🦓 Plains zebra
Maximum lifespan
80 yr
🐘 Elephant · COMBINE
40 yr
🦓 Plains zebra · 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).