🦒
Giraffe
Giraffa camelopardalis
Mammals · Vulnerable
vs
🐎
Horse
Equus ferus caballus
Mammals
One clip names both of them
176 views between them.
Giraffe outweighs Horse 2.7× — 800 kg against 300 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
Horse
1.61 m
at the shoulder
Tale of the tape
Body mass
800 kg
🦒 Giraffe · COMBINE
300 kg
🐎 Horse · AnAge
Shoulder height
3.06 m
🦒 Giraffe
1.61 m
🐎 Horse
Body length
4.45 m
🦒 Giraffe · COMBINE
no figure yet
🐎 Horse
Top speed
56 km/h
🦒 Giraffe
64 km/h
🐎 Horse
Maximum lifespan
39 yr
🦒 Giraffe · COMBINE
57 yr
🐎 Horse · AnAge
Bars are sized against the larger of the two figures.
Dieren voor de camera
Echte beelden van de dieren op deze site — hoe ze jagen, vechten en gewoon hun eigen gang gaan.
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.