🦒
Giraffe
Giraffa camelopardalis
Mammals · Vulnerable
vs
🐍
Snakes
Serpentes
Reptiles
average across the group
3 clips name both of them
54,576 views between them.
Giraffe outweighs Snakes 10× — 800 kg against 77.5 kg.
Tale of the tape
Body mass
800 kg
🦒 Giraffe · COMBINE
77 kg
🐍 Snakes · group average
Shoulder height
3.06 m
🦒 Giraffe
no figure yet
🐍 Snakes
Body length
4.45 m
🦒 Giraffe · COMBINE
3.9 m
🐍 Snakes · group average
Top speed
56 km/h
🦒 Giraffe
no figure yet
🐍 Snakes
Maximum lifespan
39 yr
🦒 Giraffe · COMBINE
27 yr
🐍 Snakes · group average
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 Tetrapoda (superclass), home to 51,389 species.
We know what their shared ancestor was, but not when it lived — no dated family tree spans both of them yet.