🦌 Pronghorn vs White-tailed deer 🦌
The pronghorn is about one and a half times as long as the white-tailed deer. The pronghorn is about twice as fast as the white-tailed deer. The white-tailed deer weighs about twice as much as the pronghorn.
| Row | 🦌 Pronghorn | 🦌 White-tailed deer |
|---|---|---|
| Top speed The pronghorn is about twice as fast as the white-tailed deer. | 55 mph89 km/h1 | 30 mph48 km/h2 |
| Weight The white-tailed deer weighs about twice as much as the pronghorn. | 90 to 125 lb41 to 57 kg3 | 90 to 300 lb41 to 136 kg4 |
| Lives The white-tailed deer lives a bit longer than the pronghorn. | 7 to 10 years7 to 10 years3 | 10 years10 years5 |
| Eats Both eat plants. | sagebrush, grasses and wildflowers | leaves, twigs, acorns, grasses and fruit |
| Lives in They live in different kinds of places, so they would hardly ever meet. | the grasslands and sagebrush deserts of western North America | woods, fields and the edges of towns across North America, and south into northern South America |
Which one? Pronghorn or white-tailed deer
🏁 Who would win the race?
The pronghorn gets to the tree first. Over a short dash it is about twice as fast as the white-tailed deer. But a pronghorn can keep up a fast run for much longer than a cheetah.
We only race. Real animals mostly avoid each other. A race is the only fair contest: who reaches the tree first, by top speed.
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Where these numbers come from
- National Park Service, Badlands, checked 30 October 2026.
- National Park Service, Prince William Forest Park, checked 30 October 2026.
- National Park Service, Yellowstone, checked 30 October 2026.
- National Park Service, Jewel Cave, checked 30 October 2026.
- National Park Service, Chattahoochee River, checked 30 October 2026.