🦏
White rhinoceros
Ceratotherium simum
Mammals · Near threatened
vs
🐾
Common warthog
Phacochoerus africanus
Mammals · Least concern
One clip names both of them
2,138 views between them.
White rhinoceros outweighs Common warthog 24× — 2,230 kg against 91.3 kg.
Tale of the tape
Body mass
2,230 kg
🦏 White rhinoceros · COMBINE
91 kg
🐾 Common warthog · COMBINE
Shoulder height
1.78 m
🦏 White rhinoceros
no figure yet
🐾 Common warthog
Body length
3.39 m
🦏 White rhinoceros · COMBINE
1.36 m
🐾 Common warthog · COMBINE
Top speed
24 km/h
🦏 White rhinoceros
no figure yet
🐾 Common warthog
Maximum lifespan
50 yr
🦏 White rhinoceros · COMBINE
21 yr
🐾 Common warthog · 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.
They last shared an ancestor about 61 million years ago.
Estimates range from 53 to 69 million years; the figure above is the middle estimate.
About this estimate
Dates from Upham, Esselstyn & Jetz 2019, PLoS Biology 17:e3000494 (CC0).