One clip names both of them

61 views between them.

White-tailed deer outweighs Dog 1.6× — 65.3 kg against 40 kg.

Tale of the tape

Body mass

40 kg

🐕 Dog · AnAge

65 kg

🐃 White-tailed deer · COMBINE

Body length

no figure yet

🐕 Dog

1.81 m

🐃 White-tailed deer · COMBINE

Maximum lifespan

27 yr

🐕 Dog · AnAge

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 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).