🦌
Red deer
Cervus elaphus
Mammals · Least concern
vs
🦡
Wolverine
Gulo gulo
Carnivores · Least concern
One clip names both of them
48,024 views between them.
Red deer outweighs Wolverine 13× — 160 kg against 12.8 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 (CC0).
Red deer
1.13 m
at the shoulder
Human
1.70 m
full standing height
for scale
Wolverine
0.39 m
at the shoulder
Tale of the tape
Body mass
160 kg
🦌 Red deer · COMBINE
13 kg
🦡 Wolverine · COMBINE
Shoulder height
1.13 m
🦌 Red deer
0.39 m
🦡 Wolverine
Body length
2.14 m
🦌 Red deer · COMBINE
0.81 m
🦡 Wolverine · COMBINE
Maximum lifespan
31 yr
🦌 Red deer · COMBINE
19 yr
🦡 Wolverine · 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 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).