🦌 White-tailed deer vs Grévy's zebra 🦓
The Grévy's zebra is about 3 times as long as the white-tailed deer. The Grévy's zebra weighs about 4 times as much as the white-tailed deer.
| Row | 🦌 White-tailed deer | 🦓 Grévy's zebra |
|---|---|---|
| Top speed We don't have a checked number for the Grévy's zebra yet. | 30 mph48 km/h1 | no checked number yet |
| Weight The Grévy's zebra weighs about 4 times as much as the white-tailed deer. | 90 to 300 lb41 to 136 kg2 | 769 to 949 lb349 to 430 kg3 |
| Lives The Grévy's zebra usually lives about twice as long as the white-tailed deer. | 10 years10 years4 | 20 to 25 years20 to 25 years3 |
| Eats Both eat plants. | leaves, twigs, acorns, grasses and fruit | tough dry grasses, plus leaves and bark |
| Lives in They live in different kinds of places, so they would hardly ever meet. | woods, fields and the edges of towns across North America, and south into northern South America | the dry grasslands of northern Kenya and Ethiopia |
Which one? White-tailed deer or Grévy's zebra
🏁 Who would win the race?
We don't have a checked top speed for the Grévy's zebra yet, so there is no race.
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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The link carries only the two animals’ names: peabody.kids/animals/compare/white-tailed-deer-vs-zebra
Where these numbers come from
- National Park Service, Prince William Forest Park, checked 30 October 2026.
- National Park Service, Jewel Cave, checked 30 October 2026.
- Smithsonian's National Zoo, checked 30 October 2026.
- National Park Service, Chattahoochee River, checked 30 October 2026.