🐺
Coyote
Canis latrans
Carnivores · Least concern
vs
🐃
White-tailed deer
Odocoileus virginianus
Mammals · Least concern
12 clips name both of them
2,182 views between them.
White-tailed deer outweighs Coyote 5.9× — 65.3 kg against 11.1 kg.
Tale of the tape
Body mass
11 kg
🐺 Coyote · COMBINE
65 kg
🐃 White-tailed deer · COMBINE
Shoulder height
0.52 m
🐺 Coyote
no figure yet
🐃 White-tailed deer
Body length
0.91 m
🐺 Coyote · COMBINE
1.81 m
🐃 White-tailed deer · COMBINE
Maximum lifespan
22 yr
🐺 Coyote · COMBINE
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 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).