🦌
Red deer
Cervus elaphus
Mammals · Least concern
vs
🐦
Grey Heron
Ardea cinerea
Birds · Least concern
One clip names both of them
811 views between them.
Red deer outweighs Grey Heron 110× — 160 kg against 1.4 kg.
Tale of the tape
Body mass
160 kg
🦌 Red deer · COMBINE
1.44 kg
🐦 Grey Heron · AVONET
Shoulder height
1.13 m
🦌 Red deer
no figure yet
🐦 Grey Heron
Body length
2.14 m
🦌 Red deer · COMBINE
no figure yet
🐦 Grey Heron
Maximum lifespan
31 yr
🦌 Red deer · COMBINE
38 yr
🐦 Grey Heron · AnAge
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 Tetrapoda (superclass), home to 51,389 species.
We know what their shared ancestor was, but not when it lived — no dated family tree spans both of them yet.