🐄
Cow
Bos taurus
Mammals
vs
🦌
Red deer
Cervus elaphus
Mammals · Least concern
105 clips name both of them
53 million views between them.
Cow outweighs Red deer 4.7× — 750 kg against 160 kg.
To scale
Grid at 50 cm
50 cm
1 m
1.5 m
2 m
Silhouettes: PhyloPic — DFoidl (modified by T. Michael Keesey) (CC BY-SA); others CC0.
Cow
1.28 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
750 kg
🐄 Cow · AnAge
160 kg
🦌 Red deer · COMBINE
Shoulder height
1.28 m
🐄 Cow
1.13 m
🦌 Red deer
Body length
no figure yet
🐄 Cow
2.14 m
🦌 Red deer · COMBINE
Maximum lifespan
20 yr
🐄 Cow · AnAge
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 Pecora (infraorder), home to 586 species.
They last shared an ancestor about 16 million years ago.
Estimates range from 14 to 20 million years; the figure above is the middle estimate.
About this estimate
Dates from Upham, Esselstyn & Jetz 2019, PLoS Biology 17:e3000494 (CC0).