🐘
Elephant
Loxodonta africana
Mammals · Endangered
vs
🦁
Lion
Panthera leo
Carnivores · Vulnerable
172 clips name both of them
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Elephant outweighs Lion 31× — 4,565 kg against 149 kg. Both figures are averages across males and females.
To scale
Grid at 1 m
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Silhouettes: PhyloPic — Lukasiniho (CC BY-NC-SA); others CC0.
Elephant
2.80 m
at the shoulder
Human
1.70 m
full standing height
for scale
Lion
1.15 m
at the shoulder
Tale of the tape
Body mass
4,565 kg
🐘 Elephant · COMBINE
149 kg
🦁 Lion · COMBINE
Shoulder height
2.8 m
🐘 Elephant
1.15 m
🦁 Lion
Body length
7.5 m
🐘 Elephant · COMBINE
2.17 m
🦁 Lion · COMBINE
Top speed
25 km/h
🐘 Elephant
55 km/h
🦁 Lion
Bite force
no figure yet
🐘 Elephant
1,768 N
🦁 Lion
Maximum lifespan
80 yr
🐘 Elephant · COMBINE
30 yr
🦁 Lion · COMBINE
Bars are sized against the larger of the two figures. Bite force figures come from individual studies and vary a lot between sources.
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Shared ancestry
The closest group they share is Theria (subclass), home to 9,319 species.
They last shared an ancestor about 91 million years ago.
Estimates range from 78 to 117 million years; the figure above is the middle estimate.
About this estimate
Dates from Upham, Esselstyn & Jetz 2019, PLoS Biology 17:e3000494 (CC0).