3 clips name both of them

89,632 views between them.

Red deer outweighs Golden jackal 15× — 160 kg against 11 kg.

Tale of the tape

Body mass

160 kg

🦌 Red deer · COMBINE

11 kg

🐾 Golden jackal · COMBINE

Shoulder height

1.13 m

🦌 Red deer

no figure yet

🐾 Golden jackal

Body length

2.14 m

🦌 Red deer · COMBINE

0.94 m

🐾 Golden jackal · COMBINE

Maximum lifespan

31 yr

🦌 Red deer · COMBINE

19 yr

🐾 Golden jackal · 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 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).