2 clips name both of them

978,212 views between them.

Level on mass: Red deer 160 kg, Blue wildebeest 181 kg.

Tale of the tape

Body mass

160 kg

🦌 Red deer · COMBINE

181 kg

🐃 Blue wildebeest · COMBINE

Shoulder height

1.13 m

🦌 Red deer

no figure yet

🐃 Blue wildebeest

Body length

2.14 m

🦌 Red deer · COMBINE

2.21 m

🐃 Blue wildebeest · COMBINE

Maximum lifespan

31 yr

🦌 Red deer · COMBINE

25 yr

🐃 Blue wildebeest · 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).