How much does an elephant weigh?
6,000 kg13,200 lb · 6 tonnesWhich one: African bush elephant bull
An elephant weighs about 6,000 kg (13,200 lb).
Animals vary, so Tilt always names a specific, common adult: a worker bee, a house mouse, a Labrador, a bull rather than a calf. The label tells you which one. Source for this figure: Wikipedia, African bush elephant.
How heavy is that?
- An elephant weighs about as much as 12 horses.
- An elephant weighs about as much as 200 Labradors.
- An elephant weighs about as much as 33,000 apples.
- It takes about 25 elephants to balance a blue whale.
- It takes about 1,700 elephants to balance the Eiffel Tower.
About the same weight
More animals
- Hippo 1,500 kg
- Rhino 2,300 kg
- Woolly mammoth 5,500 kg
- Orca 7,200 kg
- T. rex 8,000 kg
- Whale shark 15,000 kg
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