🦌
Red deer
Cervus elaphus
Mammals · Least concern
vs
🐃
Greater kudu
Tragelaphus strepsiceros
Mammals · Least concern
4 clips name both of them
15,458 views between them.
Greater kudu outweighs Red deer 1.3× — 206 kg against 160 kg.
Tale of the tape
Body mass
160 kg
🦌 Red deer · COMBINE
206 kg
🐃 Greater kudu · COMBINE
Shoulder height
1.13 m
🦌 Red deer
no figure yet
🐃 Greater kudu
Body length
2.14 m
🦌 Red deer · COMBINE
2.33 m
🐃 Greater kudu · COMBINE
Maximum lifespan
31 yr
🦌 Red deer · COMBINE
23 yr
🐃 Greater kudu · 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).