🦌
Red deer
Cervus elaphus
Mammals · Least concern
vs
🦛
Hippopotamus
Hippopotamus amphibius
Mammals · Vulnerable
2 clips name both of them
5.4 million views between them.
Hippopotamus outweighs Red deer 16× — 2,640 kg against 160 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
Hippopotamus
1.47 m
at the shoulder
Tale of the tape
Body mass
160 kg
🦌 Red deer · COMBINE
2,640 kg
🦛 Hippopotamus · COMBINE
Shoulder height
1.13 m
🦌 Red deer
1.47 m
🦛 Hippopotamus
Body length
2.14 m
🦌 Red deer · COMBINE
5.05 m
🦛 Hippopotamus · COMBINE
Top speed
no figure yet
🦌 Red deer
24 km/h
🦛 Hippopotamus
Maximum lifespan
31 yr
🦌 Red deer · COMBINE
61 yr
🦛 Hippopotamus · 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 Artiodactyla (order), home to 848 species.
We know what their shared ancestor was, but not when it lived — no dated family tree spans both of them yet.