🦌
Red deer
Cervus elaphus
Mammals · Least concern
vs
🐺
Spotted hyena
Crocuta crocuta
Carnivores · Least concern
4 clips name both of them
39 million views between them.
Red deer outweighs Spotted hyena 2.5× — 160 kg against 63 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
Spotted hyena
0.81 m
at the shoulder
Tale of the tape
Body mass
160 kg
🦌 Red deer · COMBINE
63 kg
🐺 Spotted hyena · COMBINE
Shoulder height
1.13 m
🦌 Red deer
0.81 m
🐺 Spotted hyena
Body length
2.14 m
🦌 Red deer · COMBINE
1.38 m
🐺 Spotted hyena · COMBINE
Top speed
no figure yet
🦌 Red deer
60 km/h
🐺 Spotted hyena
Bite force
no figure yet
🦌 Red deer
773 N
🐺 Spotted hyena
Maximum lifespan
31 yr
🦌 Red deer · COMBINE
41 yr
🐺 Spotted hyena · COMBINE
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.
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Shared ancestry
The closest group they share is Laurasiatheria (superorder), home to 4,193 species.
They last shared an ancestor about 64 million years ago.
Estimates range from 58 to 76 million years; the figure above is the middle estimate.
About this estimate
Dates from Upham, Esselstyn & Jetz 2019, PLoS Biology 17:e3000494 (CC0).