🦌
Red deer
Cervus elaphus
Mammals · Least concern
vs
🐕
Dhole
Cuon alpinus
Carnivores · Endangered
One clip names both of them
150,881 views between them.
Red deer outweighs Dhole 10× — 160 kg against 15.8 kg.
To scale
Grid at 50 cm
50 cm
1 m
1.5 m
2 m
Silhouettes: PhyloPic — AnAgnosticGod (vectorized by T. Michael Keesey) (CC BY-NC-SA); others CC0.
Red deer
1.13 m
at the shoulder
Human
1.70 m
full standing height
for scale
Dhole
0.46 m
at the shoulder
Tale of the tape
Body mass
160 kg
🦌 Red deer · COMBINE
16 kg
🐕 Dhole · COMBINE
Shoulder height
1.13 m
🦌 Red deer
0.46 m
🐕 Dhole
Body length
2.14 m
🦌 Red deer · COMBINE
1.06 m
🐕 Dhole · COMBINE
Maximum lifespan
31 yr
🦌 Red deer · COMBINE
16 yr
🐕 Dhole · 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).