🦌
Red deer
Cervus elaphus
Mammals · Least concern
vs
🐺
Grey wolf
Canis lupus
Carnivores · Least concern
13 clips name both of them
6 million views between them.
Red deer outweighs Grey wolf 5.5× — 160 kg against 29.2 kg.
To scale
Grid at 50 cm
50 cm
1 m
1.5 m
2 m
Silhouettes: PhyloPic (CC0).
Red deer
1.13 m
at the shoulder
Human
1.70 m
full standing height
for scale
Grey wolf
0.73 m
at the shoulder · measured lying down
Tale of the tape
Body mass
160 kg
🦌 Red deer · COMBINE
29 kg
🐺 Grey wolf · COMBINE
Shoulder height
1.13 m
🦌 Red deer
0.73 m
🐺 Grey wolf
Body length
2.14 m
🦌 Red deer · COMBINE
1.27 m
🐺 Grey wolf · COMBINE
Top speed
no figure yet
🦌 Red deer
62 km/h
🐺 Grey wolf
Bite force
no figure yet
🦌 Red deer
593 N
🐺 Grey wolf
Maximum lifespan
31 yr
🦌 Red deer · COMBINE
29 yr
🐺 Grey wolf · 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).