🐘
Elephant
Loxodonta africana
Mammals · Endangered
vs
🦒
Giraffe
Giraffa camelopardalis
Mammals · Vulnerable
12 clips name both of them
8.6 million views between them.
Elephant outweighs Giraffe 5.7× — 4,565 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.
Elephant
2.80 m
at the shoulder
Human
1.70 m
full standing height
for scale
Giraffe
5.28 m
full standing height
Tale of the tape
Body mass
4,565 kg
🐘 Elephant · COMBINE
800 kg
🦒 Giraffe · COMBINE
Shoulder height
2.8 m
🐘 Elephant
3.06 m
🦒 Giraffe
Body length
7.5 m
🐘 Elephant · COMBINE
4.45 m
🦒 Giraffe · COMBINE
Top speed
25 km/h
🐘 Elephant
56 km/h
🦒 Giraffe
Maximum lifespan
80 yr
🐘 Elephant · COMBINE
39 yr
🦒 Giraffe · COMBINE
Bars are sized against the larger of the two figures.
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Shared ancestry
The closest group they share is Theria (subclass), home to 9,319 species.
We know what their shared ancestor was, but not when it lived — no dated family tree spans both of them yet.