🦒
Giraffe
Giraffa camelopardalis
Mammals · Vulnerable
vs
🦏
White rhinoceros
Ceratotherium simum
Mammals · Near threatened
2 clips name both of them
9,124 views between them.
White rhinoceros outweighs Giraffe 2.8× — 2,230 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
White rhinoceros
1.78 m
at the shoulder
Tale of the tape
Body mass
800 kg
🦒 Giraffe · COMBINE
2,230 kg
🦏 White rhinoceros · COMBINE
Shoulder height
3.06 m
🦒 Giraffe
1.78 m
🦏 White rhinoceros
Body length
4.45 m
🦒 Giraffe · COMBINE
3.39 m
🦏 White rhinoceros · COMBINE
Top speed
56 km/h
🦒 Giraffe
24 km/h
🦏 White rhinoceros
Maximum lifespan
39 yr
🦒 Giraffe · COMBINE
50 yr
🦏 White rhinoceros · 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 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.