🦌
Red deer
Cervus elaphus
Mammals · Least concern
vs
🦌
Roe deer
Capreolus capreolus
Mammals · Least concern
2 clips name both of them
47 views between them.
Red deer outweighs Roe deer 7.4× — 160 kg against 21.7 kg.
Tale of the tape
Body mass
160 kg
🦌 Red deer · COMBINE
22 kg
🦌 Roe deer · COMBINE
Shoulder height
1.13 m
🦌 Red deer
no figure yet
🦌 Roe deer
Body length
2.14 m
🦌 Red deer · COMBINE
1.51 m
🦌 Roe deer · COMBINE
Maximum lifespan
31 yr
🦌 Red deer · COMBINE
17 yr
🦌 Roe deer · 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 Cervidae (family), home to 183 species.
They last shared an ancestor about 9.2 million years ago.
Estimates range from 7.9 to 12 million years; the figure above is the middle estimate.
About this estimate
Dates from Upham, Esselstyn & Jetz 2019, PLoS Biology 17:e3000494 (CC0).