Size It Up · Animals
How tall is African elephant?
3.3 mheight
Measured at the shoulder, a bull African elephant stands about 3.3 m.
Enter your height to compare yourself with African elephant.
- 0.73× a family car (4.5 m)
- 1.63× the front door (2.03 m)
- 0.6× a giraffe (5.5 m)
- 1.94× the adult human (1.7 m)
How to picture 3.3 m
Start from something you can see right now. African elephant is about 0.73× family car. That is exactly the estimate the board asks you to draw: pick a reference, decide the ratio, resize the silhouette.
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