One clip names both of them

3 views between them.

Red deer outweighs Arctic fox 44× — 160 kg against 3.6 kg.

Tale of the tape

Body mass

3.6 kg

🦊 Arctic fox · COMBINE

160 kg

🦌 Red deer · COMBINE

Shoulder height

no figure yet

🦊 Arctic fox

1.13 m

🦌 Red deer

Body length

0.62 m

🦊 Arctic fox · COMBINE

2.14 m

🦌 Red deer · COMBINE

Maximum lifespan

16 yr

🦊 Arctic fox · 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).