🐎
Horse
Equus ferus caballus
Mammals
vs
🦌
Reindeer
Rangifer tarandus
Mammals · Vulnerable
One clip names both of them
477 views between them.
Horse outweighs Reindeer 3.0× — 300 kg against 101 kg.
To scale
Grid at 50 cm
50 cm
1 m
1.5 m
2 m
Silhouettes: PhyloPic (CC0).
Horse
1.61 m
at the shoulder
Human
1.70 m
full standing height
for scale
Reindeer
1.22 m
at the shoulder
Tale of the tape
Body mass
300 kg
🐎 Horse · AnAge
101 kg
🦌 Reindeer · COMBINE
Shoulder height
1.61 m
🐎 Horse
1.22 m
🦌 Reindeer
Body length
no figure yet
🐎 Horse
2.21 m
🦌 Reindeer · COMBINE
Top speed
64 km/h
🐎 Horse
no figure yet
🦌 Reindeer
Maximum lifespan
57 yr
🐎 Horse · AnAge
22 yr
🦌 Reindeer · 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 61 million years ago.
Estimates range from 53 to 69 million years; the figure above is the middle estimate.
About this estimate
Dates from Upham, Esselstyn & Jetz 2019, PLoS Biology 17:e3000494 (CC0).