🦒
Giraffe
Giraffa camelopardalis
Mammals · Vulnerable
vs
🐆
Leopard
Panthera pardus
Carnivores · Vulnerable
5 clips name both of them
1.3 million views between them.
Giraffe outweighs Leopard 15× — 800 kg against 53.1 kg.
To scale
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Silhouettes: PhyloPic — Bernard Dupont (photograph) and T. Michael Keesey (tracing) (CC BY-SA), Lukasiniho (CC BY-NC-SA); others CC0.
Giraffe
5.28 m
full standing height
Human
1.70 m
full standing height
for scale
Leopard
0.72 m
at the shoulder
Tale of the tape
Body mass
800 kg
🦒 Giraffe · COMBINE
53 kg
🐆 Leopard · COMBINE
Shoulder height
3.06 m
🦒 Giraffe
0.72 m
🐆 Leopard
Body length
4.45 m
🦒 Giraffe · COMBINE
1.64 m
🐆 Leopard · COMBINE
Top speed
56 km/h
🦒 Giraffe
58 km/h
🐆 Leopard
Bite force
no figure yet
🦒 Giraffe
467 N
🐆 Leopard
Maximum lifespan
39 yr
🦒 Giraffe · COMBINE
27 yr
🐆 Leopard · COMBINE
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 Laurasiatheria (superorder), home to 4,193 species.
We know what their shared ancestor was, but not when it lived — no dated family tree spans both of them yet.