🦌
Red deer
Cervus elaphus
Mammals · Least concern
vs
🦅
Golden eagle
Aquila chrysaetos
Birds · Least concern
4 clips name both of them
578,752 views between them.
Red deer outweighs Golden eagle 38× — 160 kg against 4.2 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).
Red deer
1.13 m
at the shoulder
Human
1.70 m
full standing height
for scale
Golden eagle
0.61 m
full standing height · measured standing
Tale of the tape
Body mass
160 kg
🦌 Red deer · COMBINE
4.25 kg
🦅 Golden eagle · AVONET
Shoulder height
1.13 m
🦌 Red deer
no figure yet
🦅 Golden eagle
Body length
2.14 m
🦌 Red deer · COMBINE
no figure yet
🦅 Golden eagle
Maximum lifespan
31 yr
🦌 Red deer · COMBINE
48 yr
🦅 Golden eagle · AnAge
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 Tetrapoda (superclass), home to 51,389 species.
We know what their shared ancestor was, but not when it lived — no dated family tree spans both of them yet.