🦌
Red deer
Cervus elaphus
Mammals · Least concern
vs
🦒
Giraffe
Giraffa camelopardalis
Mammals · Vulnerable
2 clips name both of them
128 views between them.
Giraffe outweighs Red deer 5.0× — 800 kg against 160 kg.
To scale
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Silhouettes: PhyloPic — Bernard Dupont (photograph) and T. Michael Keesey (tracing) (CC BY-SA); others CC0.
Red deer
1.13 m
at the shoulder
Human
1.70 m
full standing height
for scale
Giraffe
5.28 m
full standing height
Tale of the tape
Body mass
160 kg
🦌 Red deer · COMBINE
800 kg
🦒 Giraffe · COMBINE
Shoulder height
1.13 m
🦌 Red deer
3.06 m
🦒 Giraffe
Body length
2.14 m
🦌 Red deer · COMBINE
4.45 m
🦒 Giraffe · COMBINE
Top speed
no figure yet
🦌 Red deer
56 km/h
🦒 Giraffe
Maximum lifespan
31 yr
🦌 Red deer · COMBINE
39 yr
🦒 Giraffe · 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.
We know what their shared ancestor was, but not when it lived — no dated family tree spans both of them yet.