🦌
Red deer
Cervus elaphus
Mammals · Least concern
vs
🐑
Sheep
Ovis aries
Mammals · Not evaluated
6 clips name both of them
33 million views between them.
Red deer outweighs Sheep 2.0× — 160 kg against 80 kg.
Tale of the tape
Body mass
160 kg
🦌 Red deer · COMBINE
80 kg
🐑 Sheep · AnAge
Shoulder height
1.13 m
🦌 Red deer
no figure yet
🐑 Sheep
Body length
2.14 m
🦌 Red deer · COMBINE
no figure yet
🐑 Sheep
Maximum lifespan
31 yr
🦌 Red deer · COMBINE
23 yr
🐑 Sheep · AnAge
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 Pecora (infraorder), home to 586 species.
We know what their shared ancestor was, but not when it lived — no dated family tree spans both of them yet.