🐢 Aldabra giant tortoise vs Asian elephant 🐘
The Asian elephant is about 3 times as tall as the Aldabra giant tortoise. The Asian elephant weighs about 20 times as much as the Aldabra giant tortoise.
| Row | 🐢 Aldabra giant tortoise | 🐘 Asian elephant |
|---|---|---|
| Top speed Neither has a checked number yet. | no checked number yet | no checked number yet |
| Weight The Asian elephant weighs about 20 times as much as the Aldabra giant tortoise. | 351 to 551 lb159 to 250 kg1 | 3 to 6 tons2.8 to 5.4 tonnes2 |
| Lives The Aldabra giant tortoise usually lives about twice as long as the Asian elephant. | 100 years100 years1 | 47 years47 years2 |
| Eats Both eat plants. | grass, leaves, woody plants and fallen fruit | grasses, leaves, bark, roots and fruit |
| Lives in They live in different kinds of places, so they would hardly ever meet. | Aldabra, a ring of coral islands in the Indian Ocean, and a few nearby islands where people have brought them | forests and grasslands of India and Southeast Asia |
Which one? Aldabra giant tortoise or Asian elephant
🏁 Who would win the race?
We don't have a checked top speed for the Aldabra giant tortoise or the Asian elephant yet, so there is no race.
We only race. Real animals mostly avoid each other. A race is the only fair contest: who reaches the tree first, by top speed.
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Where these numbers come from
- Smithsonian's National Zoo, checked 30 October 2026.
- Smithsonian's National Zoo, checked 30 October 2026.