🐺
African wild dog
Lycaon pictus
Carnivores · Endangered
vs
🦌
Red deer
Cervus elaphus
Mammals · Least concern
17 clips name both of them
4.3 million views between them.
Red deer outweighs African wild dog 6.6× — 160 kg against 24.3 kg.
To scale
Grid at 50 cm
50 cm
1 m
1.5 m
2 m
Silhouettes: PhyloPic (CC0).
African wild dog
0.69 m
at the shoulder
Human
1.70 m
full standing height
for scale
Red deer
1.13 m
at the shoulder
Tale of the tape
Body mass
24 kg
🐺 African wild dog · COMBINE
160 kg
🦌 Red deer · COMBINE
Shoulder height
0.69 m
🐺 African wild dog
1.13 m
🦌 Red deer
Body length
1.02 m
🐺 African wild dog · COMBINE
2.14 m
🦌 Red deer · COMBINE
Maximum lifespan
17 yr
🐺 African wild dog · COMBINE
31 yr
🦌 Red deer · COMBINE
Bars are sized against the larger of the two figures.
Animals caught on camera
Real footage of the animals on this site — hunting, fighting, and getting on with it.
Shared ancestry
The closest group they share is Laurasiatheria (superorder), home to 4,193 species.
They last shared an ancestor about 64 million years ago.
Estimates range from 58 to 76 million years; the figure above is the middle estimate.
About this estimate
Dates from Upham, Esselstyn & Jetz 2019, PLoS Biology 17:e3000494 (CC0).