🦌
Red deer
Cervus elaphus
Mammals · Least concern
vs
🐘
Elephant
Loxodonta africana
Mammals · Endangered
6 clips name both of them
3.5 million views between them.
Elephant outweighs Red deer 29× — 4,565 kg against 160 kg.
To scale
Grid at 1 m
1 m
2 m
3 m
Silhouettes: PhyloPic (CC0).
Red deer
1.13 m
at the shoulder
Human
1.70 m
full standing height
for scale
Elephant
2.80 m
at the shoulder
Tale of the tape
Body mass
160 kg
🦌 Red deer · COMBINE
4,565 kg
🐘 Elephant · COMBINE
Shoulder height
1.13 m
🦌 Red deer
2.8 m
🐘 Elephant
Body length
2.14 m
🦌 Red deer · COMBINE
7.5 m
🐘 Elephant · COMBINE
Top speed
no figure yet
🦌 Red deer
25 km/h
🐘 Elephant
Maximum lifespan
31 yr
🦌 Red deer · COMBINE
80 yr
🐘 Elephant · 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.
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Shared ancestry
The closest group they share is Theria (subclass), home to 9,319 species.
They last shared an ancestor about 91 million years ago.
Estimates range from 78 to 117 million years; the figure above is the middle estimate.
About this estimate
Dates from Upham, Esselstyn & Jetz 2019, PLoS Biology 17:e3000494 (CC0).