Cervids are one of the most common families of wild herbivores in the world. Of these the moose can grow up to 2.33 m tall and weigh as much as 820 kg. The smallest cervid is the northern pudu. Rank Cervid Binomial name Known maximum mass[kg (lbs)] Shoulder Height[m] Image 1 Moose Alces alces 820 (1808) Wood, The Guinness Book of Animal Facts and Feats. Sterling Pub Co Inc. (1983), 2.33 2 Elk Cervus canadensis 600 (1323)Eide, Sterling. "Roosevelt Elk". Alaska Department of Fish and Game. Retrieved 2010-12-04. 1.6 3 Sambar Rusa unicolor 546 (1204)1.Burnie D and Wilson DE (Eds.), Animal: The Definitive Visual Guide to the World's Wildlife. DK Adult (2005), 2."Comparative Placentation". Placentation.ucsd.edu. Retrieved 17 August 2012. 1.6 4 Red deer Cervus elaphus 500 (1102)Geist, Valerius (1998). Deer of the world: their evolution, behaviour, and ecology. Stackpole Books. p. 202. . 1.4 5 Reindeer Rangifer tarandus 318 (701) Caribou at the Alaska Department of Fish & Game Archived 30 December 2013 at the Wayback Machine.. Adfg.state.ak.us. Retrieved on 16 September 2011. 1.5 6 Barasingha Rucervus duvaucelii 280 (617) Schaller, G. B. (1967). The Deer and the Tiger – A Study of Wildlife in India. University Chicago Press, Chicago, IL, USA. 1.3 7 White-tailed deer Odocoileus virginianus 232 (512) "The Outdoor Life Book of World Records". Outdoor Life. Retrieved February 20, 2011. 1.2 8 Thorold's deer Cervus albirostris 230 (507) Leslie, D.M. (2010). "Przewalskium albirostre (Artiodactyla: Cervidae)". Mammalian Species. 42 (1): 7–18. doi:10.1644/849.1. 1.4 9 Mule deer Odocoileus hemionus 210 (463) Petersen, David (Nov./Dec., 1985). "North American Deer: Mule, Whitetail and Coastal Blacktail Deer". Mother Earth News. Ogden Publications, Inc. Retrieved 4 January 2012. Odocoileus hemionus, Animal Diversity David Burnie (1 September 2011). Animal: The Definitive Visual Guide to the World's Wildlife. Dorling Kindersley Limited. . "Deer (Family Cervidae)". Retrieved 8 January 2014. 1.2 10 Père David's deer Elaphurus davidianus 200 (441) "Père David's Deer (Elaphurus davidianus)". Deer. Gland, Switzerland: World Association of Zoos and Aquariums. 2012. Retrieved 2012-05-20. 1.2 11 Marsh deer Blastocerus dichotomus 150 (330) (2011).1.2

See also List of cervids

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