🐄
Cow
Bos taurus
Mammals
vs
🐃
White-tailed deer
Odocoileus virginianus
Mammals · Least concern
One clip names both of them
590 views between them.
Cow outweighs White-tailed deer 11× — 750 kg against 65.3 kg.
Tale of the tape
Body mass
750 kg
🐄 Cow · AnAge
65 kg
🐃 White-tailed deer · COMBINE
Shoulder height
1.28 m
🐄 Cow
no figure yet
🐃 White-tailed deer
Body length
no figure yet
🐄 Cow
1.81 m
🐃 White-tailed deer · COMBINE
Maximum lifespan
20 yr
🐄 Cow · AnAge
23 yr
🐃 White-tailed 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).