🦒
Giraffe
Giraffa camelopardalis
Mammals · Vulnerable
vs
🐃
Greater kudu
Tragelaphus strepsiceros
Mammals · Least concern
One clip names both of them
635 views between them.
Giraffe outweighs Greater kudu 3.9× — 800 kg against 206 kg.
Tale of the tape
Body mass
800 kg
🦒 Giraffe · COMBINE
206 kg
🐃 Greater kudu · COMBINE
Shoulder height
3.06 m
🦒 Giraffe
no figure yet
🐃 Greater kudu
Body length
4.45 m
🦒 Giraffe · COMBINE
2.33 m
🐃 Greater kudu · COMBINE
Top speed
56 km/h
🦒 Giraffe
no figure yet
🐃 Greater kudu
Maximum lifespan
39 yr
🦒 Giraffe · COMBINE
23 yr
🐃 Greater kudu · 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.