One clip names both of them

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Red deer outweighs Springbok 4.8× — 160 kg against 33.6 kg. Both figures are averages across males and females.

Tale of the tape

Body mass

160 kg

🦌 Red deer · COMBINE

34 kg

🐃 Springbok · COMBINE

Shoulder height

1.13 m

🦌 Red deer

no figure yet

🐃 Springbok

Body length

2.14 m

🦌 Red deer · COMBINE

1.23 m

🐃 Springbok · COMBINE

Maximum lifespan

31 yr

🦌 Red deer · COMBINE

20 yr

🐃 Springbok · 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 Pecora (infraorder), home to 586 species.

They last shared an ancestor about 16 million years ago.

Estimates range from 14 to 20 million years; the figure above is the middle estimate.

About this estimate

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