How tall was a woolly mammoth at the shoulder?

Compared with things you know

• About 3.4 times the height of a standard 55-gallon steel drum (88 cm)
• About 1.8 times the height of an adult person (1.7 m)
• About 1.5 times the height of a standard interior door (2 m)

Did you know?

Small groups of woolly mammoths survived on Wrangel Island until about 4,000 years ago.

More sizes

• Brachiosaurus12 m · 39.4 ft tall
• Tyrannosaurus rex12.3 m · 40.4 ft long
• Bottlenose dolphin3 m · 9 ft 10 in long
• African elephant3.2 m · 10.5 ft tall at the shoulder
• Moai statue4 m · 13.1 ft tall
• Dromedary camel2 m · 6 ft 7 in tall at the shoulder

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