🦌
Red deer
Cervus elaphus
Mammals · Least concern
vs
🦘
Red kangaroo
Macropus rufus
Marsupials · Least concern
One clip names both of them
28,877 views between them.
Red deer outweighs Red kangaroo 4.5× — 160 kg against 35.7 kg.
Tale of the tape
Body mass
160 kg
🦌 Red deer · COMBINE
36 kg
🦘 Red kangaroo · COMBINE
Shoulder height
1.13 m
🦌 Red deer
no figure yet
🦘 Red kangaroo
Body length
2.14 m
🦌 Red deer · COMBINE
1.6 m
🦘 Red kangaroo · COMBINE
Maximum lifespan
31 yr
🦌 Red deer · COMBINE
30 yr
🦘 Red kangaroo · 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 Theria (subclass), home to 9,319 species.
They last shared an ancestor about 158 million years ago.
Estimates range from 156 to 166 million years; the figure above is the middle estimate.
About this estimate
Dates from Upham, Esselstyn & Jetz 2019, PLoS Biology 17:e3000494 (CC0).