🦌
Red deer
Cervus elaphus
Mammals · Least concern
vs
🧍
Human
Homo sapiens
Primates · Least concern
9 clips name both of them
609,650 views between them.
Red deer outweighs Human 2.6× — 160 kg against 62 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
Tale of the tape
Body mass
160 kg
🦌 Red deer · COMBINE
62 kg
🧍 Human · AnAge
Shoulder height
1.13 m
🦌 Red deer
no figure yet
🧍 Human
Body length
2.14 m
🦌 Red deer · COMBINE
no figure yet
🧍 Human
Top speed
no figure yet
🦌 Red deer
38 km/h
🧍 Human
Bite force
no figure yet
🦌 Red deer
843 N
🧍 Human
Maximum lifespan
31 yr
🦌 Red deer · COMBINE
123 yr
🧍 Human · AnAge
Bars are sized against the larger of the two figures. Bite force figures come from individual studies and vary a lot between sources.
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 Theria (subclass), home to 9,319 species.
They last shared an ancestor about 81 million years ago.
Estimates range from 74 to 89 million years; the figure above is the middle estimate.
About this estimate
Dates from Upham, Esselstyn & Jetz 2019, PLoS Biology 17:e3000494 (CC0).