🦒
Giraffe
Giraffa camelopardalis
Mammals · Vulnerable
vs
🧍
Human
Homo sapiens
Primates · Least concern
2 clips name both of them
50 million views between them.
Giraffe outweighs Human 13× — 800 kg against 62 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
Tale of the tape
Body mass
800 kg
🦒 Giraffe · COMBINE
62 kg
🧍 Human · AnAge
Shoulder height
3.06 m
🦒 Giraffe
no figure yet
🧍 Human
Body length
4.45 m
🦒 Giraffe · COMBINE
no figure yet
🧍 Human
Top speed
56 km/h
🦒 Giraffe
38 km/h
🧍 Human
Bite force
no figure yet
🦒 Giraffe
843 N
🧍 Human
Maximum lifespan
39 yr
🦒 Giraffe · COMBINE
123 yr
🧍 Human · AnAge
Bars are sized against the larger of the two figures. Bite force figures come from individual studies and vary a lot between sources.
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.
We know what their shared ancestor was, but not when it lived — no dated family tree spans both of them yet.