🐆
Cheetah
Acinonyx jubatus
Carnivores · Vulnerable
vs
🦌
Red deer
Cervus elaphus
Mammals · Least concern
10 clips name both of them
4.4 million views between them.
Red deer outweighs Cheetah 3.2× — 160 kg against 50.6 kg. Both figures are averages across males and females.
To scale
Grid at 50 cm
50 cm
1 m
1.5 m
2 m
Silhouettes: PhyloPic (CC0).
Cheetah
0.80 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
51 kg
🐆 Cheetah · COMBINE
160 kg
🦌 Red deer · COMBINE
Shoulder height
0.8 m
🐆 Cheetah
1.13 m
🦌 Red deer
Body length
1.49 m
🐆 Cheetah · COMBINE
2.14 m
🦌 Red deer · COMBINE
Top speed
104 km/h
🐆 Cheetah
no figure yet
🦌 Red deer
Bite force
472 N
🐆 Cheetah
no figure yet
🦌 Red deer
Maximum lifespan
20 yr
🐆 Cheetah · COMBINE
31 yr
🦌 Red deer · COMBINE
Bars are sized against the larger of the two figures. Bite force figures come from individual studies and vary a lot between sources.
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).