🦌
Gerenuk
Litocranius walleri
Mammals · Near threatened
vs
🦒
Giraffe
Giraffa camelopardalis
Mammals · Vulnerable
3 clips name both of them
83,150 views between them.
Giraffe outweighs Gerenuk 19× — 800 kg against 41.3 kg.
Tale of the tape
Body mass
41 kg
🦌 Gerenuk · COMBINE
800 kg
🦒 Giraffe · COMBINE
Shoulder height
no figure yet
🦌 Gerenuk
3.06 m
🦒 Giraffe
Body length
1.55 m
🦌 Gerenuk · COMBINE
4.45 m
🦒 Giraffe · COMBINE
Top speed
no figure yet
🦌 Gerenuk
56 km/h
🦒 Giraffe
Maximum lifespan
17 yr
🦌 Gerenuk · COMBINE
39 yr
🦒 Giraffe · 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 Pecora (infraorder), home to 586 species.
We know what their shared ancestor was, but not when it lived — no dated family tree spans both of them yet.