🦌
Red deer
Cervus elaphus
Mammals · Least concern
vs
🐃
White-tailed deer
Odocoileus virginianus
Mammals · Least concern
48 clips name both of them
6.6 million views between them.
Red deer outweighs White-tailed deer 2.5× — 160 kg against 65.3 kg.
Tale of the tape
Body mass
160 kg
🦌 Red deer · COMBINE
65 kg
🐃 White-tailed deer · COMBINE
Shoulder height
1.13 m
🦌 Red deer
no figure yet
🐃 White-tailed deer
Body length
2.14 m
🦌 Red deer · COMBINE
1.81 m
🐃 White-tailed deer · COMBINE
Maximum lifespan
31 yr
🦌 Red deer · COMBINE
23 yr
🐃 White-tailed 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).