2 clips name both of them

1,580 views between them.

Level on mass: Red deer 160 kg, Sambar 178 kg.

Tale of the tape

Body mass

160 kg

🦌 Red deer · COMBINE

178 kg

🦌 Sambar · COMBINE

Shoulder height

1.13 m

🦌 Red deer

no figure yet

🦌 Sambar

Body length

2.14 m

🦌 Red deer · COMBINE

2.25 m

🦌 Sambar · COMBINE

Maximum lifespan

31 yr

🦌 Red deer · COMBINE

26 yr

🦌 Sambar · 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 Cervinae (subfamily), home to 94 species.

They last shared an ancestor about 2.1 million years ago.

Estimates range from 1.1 to 2.9 million years; the figure above is the middle estimate.

About this estimate

Dates from Upham, Esselstyn & Jetz 2019, PLoS Biology 17:e3000494 (CC0).