🦌
Red deer
Cervus elaphus
Mammals · Least concern
vs
🦌
Gerenuk
Litocranius walleri
Mammals · Near threatened
13 clips name both of them
48,360 views between them.
Red deer outweighs Gerenuk 3.9× — 160 kg against 41.3 kg.
Tale of the tape
Body mass
160 kg
🦌 Red deer · COMBINE
41 kg
🦌 Gerenuk · COMBINE
Shoulder height
1.13 m
🦌 Red deer
no figure yet
🦌 Gerenuk
Body length
2.14 m
🦌 Red deer · COMBINE
1.55 m
🦌 Gerenuk · COMBINE
Maximum lifespan
31 yr
🦌 Red deer · COMBINE
17 yr
🦌 Gerenuk · 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 Pecora (infraorder), home to 586 species.
They last shared an ancestor about 16 million years ago.
Estimates range from 14 to 20 million years; the figure above is the middle estimate.
About this estimate
Dates from Upham, Esselstyn & Jetz 2019, PLoS Biology 17:e3000494 (CC0).