🦌
Red deer
Cervus elaphus
Mammals · Least concern
vs
🦊
Red fox
Vulpes vulpes
Carnivores · Least concern
14 clips name both of them
503,930 views between them.
Red deer outweighs Red fox 35× — 160 kg against 4.6 kg.
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
Red fox
0.41 m
at the shoulder
Tale of the tape
Body mass
160 kg
🦌 Red deer · COMBINE
4.58 kg
🦊 Red fox · COMBINE
Shoulder height
1.13 m
🦌 Red deer
0.41 m
🦊 Red fox
Body length
2.14 m
🦌 Red deer · COMBINE
0.63 m
🦊 Red fox · COMBINE
Maximum lifespan
31 yr
🦌 Red deer · COMBINE
21 yr
🦊 Red fox · 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).