🦌
Red deer
Cervus elaphus
Mammals · Least concern
vs
🐗
Wild boar
Sus scrofa
Mammals · Least concern
4 clips name both of them
3,845 views between them.
Red deer outweighs Wild boar 1.2× — 160 kg against 135 kg.
Tale of the tape
Body mass
160 kg
🦌 Red deer · COMBINE
135 kg
🐗 Wild boar · COMBINE
Shoulder height
1.13 m
🦌 Red deer
no figure yet
🐗 Wild boar
Body length
2.14 m
🦌 Red deer · COMBINE
1.57 m
🐗 Wild boar · COMBINE
Bite force
no figure yet
🦌 Red deer
3,370 N
🐗 Wild boar
Maximum lifespan
31 yr
🦌 Red deer · COMBINE
27 yr
🐗 Wild boar · 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 Artiodactyla (order), home to 848 species.
They last shared an ancestor about 53 million years ago.
Estimates range from 47 to 65 million years; the figure above is the middle estimate.
About this estimate
Dates from Upham, Esselstyn & Jetz 2019, PLoS Biology 17:e3000494 (CC0).