One clip names both of them

116 views between them.

Wild boar outweighs Sika deer 2.5× — 135 kg against 53 kg.

Tale of the tape

Body mass

53 kg

🦌 Sika deer · COMBINE

135 kg

🐗 Wild boar · COMBINE

Body length

1.3 m

🦌 Sika deer · COMBINE

1.57 m

🐗 Wild boar · COMBINE

Bite force

no figure yet

🦌 Sika deer

3,370 N

🐗 Wild boar

Maximum lifespan

26 yr

🦌 Sika deer · COMBINE

27 yr

🐗 Wild boar · 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 Artiodactyla (order), home to 848 species.

They last shared an ancestor about 53 million years ago.

Estimates range from 47 to 65 million years; the figure above is the middle estimate.

About this estimate

Dates from Upham, Esselstyn & Jetz 2019, PLoS Biology 17:e3000494 (CC0).