Red Stag Vs. Elk

This gives you a good idea of the size difference between Elk and Red Stag! We have both Elk and Red Stag on our Ranch in New Zealand and we guide many trophy hunters successfully on these species every year.

[micklepickle]

When your little brother wants to fight you

[josephr]

“Like this?”
“Nono you gotta put your shoulders into it like this”
“Ahhh I see”

[LifeInABoxorigin]

I like that the stag kinda moves off at one point like "We're not even competing for the same thing, why are we doing this?"

[ukantlers]

really puts into perspective how big elk are

[rammsteinrulz]

*Moose has entered the chat*
*Elk and Red Deer have left the chat*

[muffintop]

I've never seen a red stag in person, I didn't realize how much smaller they were.

[DJ-xirl]

I love how half way through it the red stag is like oh cool there is a bee and looks the other way and the elk is just there in a fighting stance and the red stag goes oh right the fight

[nouseforanamelucky]

Plot twist: they're both looking for the contact lense that the elk accidentally dropped..

[The_EGC]

You do have to admit that the red stags rack is quite impressive, especially when in comparison to the elks.

[cgrenier]

Meh, the Elk is polishing his antler tips. They are just playing.

[leilaclarridge]

The elk probably just looks like a weirdly big red deer to the red, while the red looks like a weirdly small elk to the elk.

[Wildman-lcur]

It's amazing how elk are bigger and have a high pitch scream and red deer are smaller and have a low pitch bellow

[theawkwarddog]

The stag is like “I have got this, never mind, well maybe... yeah heck no I don’t got this.”😂🤣😂

[broken_diesel]

When you box at the wrong weight class!!

[blackspectre]

It's interesting to see these two together as they're very very closely related (They are both one of the only Cervus species, other realtives being Corsican, Barbary and Traim deer), but what's funny is how vastly different they sound, and man the Red Stag sounds so much bigger than what it looks lmao.

[eliletts]

I always had the idea that those 2 species were closer in size!

That stag has some serious balls to stand up to that bull elk!

🤯

[unstopology]

This is like most of the fights in my middle school. Lots of posturing, then the bell rings and nothing happens.

[andrewgarcia]

All I know is that the Elk being much bigger makes a high pitch screech and the red deer being smaller makes a huge bellowing sound.

[ruckusrebel]

Fun fact: you aren’t watching this full screen

[daliborjovanovic]

Hard to imagine that until recently, we thought they were the same species. Also, the bigger elk sounds like a wailing banshee while the smaller red deer has such a mighty roar that it would make a lion feel inadequate.