🦌
Red deer
Cervus elaphus
Mammals · Least concern
vs
🐈
Eurasian lynx
Lynx lynx
Carnivores · Least concern
9 clips name both of them
29,919 views between them.
Red deer outweighs Eurasian lynx 7.6× — 160 kg against 21.1 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
Eurasian lynx
0.63 m
at the shoulder
Tale of the tape
Body mass
160 kg
🦌 Red deer · COMBINE
21 kg
🐈 Eurasian lynx · COMBINE
Shoulder height
1.13 m
🦌 Red deer
0.63 m
🐈 Eurasian lynx
Body length
2.14 m
🦌 Red deer · COMBINE
1.08 m
🐈 Eurasian lynx · COMBINE
Maximum lifespan
31 yr
🦌 Red deer · COMBINE
27 yr
🐈 Eurasian lynx · 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).