🦒
Giraffe
Giraffa camelopardalis
Mammals · Vulnerable
vs
🦛
Hippopotamus
Hippopotamus amphibius
Mammals · Vulnerable
One clip names both of them
55 views between them.
Hippopotamus outweighs Giraffe 3.3× — 2,640 kg against 800 kg.
To scale
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Silhouettes: PhyloPic — Bernard Dupont (photograph) and T. Michael Keesey (tracing) (CC BY-SA); others CC0.
Giraffe
5.28 m
full standing height
Human
1.70 m
full standing height
for scale
Hippopotamus
1.47 m
at the shoulder
Tale of the tape
Body mass
800 kg
🦒 Giraffe · COMBINE
2,640 kg
🦛 Hippopotamus · COMBINE
Shoulder height
3.06 m
🦒 Giraffe
1.47 m
🦛 Hippopotamus
Body length
4.45 m
🦒 Giraffe · COMBINE
5.05 m
🦛 Hippopotamus · COMBINE
Top speed
56 km/h
🦒 Giraffe
24 km/h
🦛 Hippopotamus
Maximum lifespan
39 yr
🦒 Giraffe · COMBINE
61 yr
🦛 Hippopotamus · 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 Artiodactyla (order), home to 848 species.
We know what their shared ancestor was, but not when it lived — no dated family tree spans both of them yet.