🦌
Red deer
Cervus elaphus
Mammals · Least concern
vs
🐅
Tiger
Panthera tigris
Carnivores · Endangered
7 clips name both of them
5.6 million views between them.
Red deer outweighs Tiger 1.2× — 160 kg against 129 kg. Both figures are averages across males and females.
To scale
Grid at 50 cm
50 cm
1 m
1.5 m
2 m
Silhouettes: PhyloPic — Gabriela Palomo-Munoz (CC BY-NC); others CC0.
Red deer
1.13 m
at the shoulder
Human
1.70 m
full standing height
for scale
Tiger
0.91 m
at the shoulder · measured standing
Tale of the tape
Body mass
160 kg
🦌 Red deer · COMBINE
129 kg
🐅 Tiger · COMBINE
Shoulder height
1.13 m
🦌 Red deer
0.91 m
🐅 Tiger
Body length
2.14 m
🦌 Red deer · COMBINE
2.31 m
🐅 Tiger · COMBINE
Top speed
no figure yet
🦌 Red deer
54 km/h
🐅 Tiger
Bite force
no figure yet
🦌 Red deer
1,525 N
🐅 Tiger
Maximum lifespan
31 yr
🦌 Red deer · COMBINE
26 yr
🐅 Tiger · COMBINE
Bars are sized against the larger of the two figures. Bite force figures come from individual studies and vary a lot between sources.
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).