🐻
Brown bear
Ursus arctos
Carnivores · Least concern
vs
🦍
Western gorilla
Gorilla gorilla
Primates · Critically endangered
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Brown bear outweighs Western gorilla 1.9× — 241 kg against 126 kg.
Tale of the tape
Body mass
241 kg
🐻 Brown bear · COMBINE
126 kg
🦍 Western gorilla · COMBINE
Shoulder height
1.2 m
🐻 Brown bear
no figure yet
🦍 Western gorilla
Body length
2.29 m
🐻 Brown bear · COMBINE
1.67 m
🦍 Western gorilla · COMBINE
Top speed
47 km/h
🐻 Brown bear
31 km/h
🦍 Western gorilla
Bite force
751 N
🐻 Brown bear
1,723 N
🦍 Western gorilla
Maximum lifespan
50 yr
🐻 Brown bear · COMBINE
55 yr
🦍 Western gorilla · COMBINE
Bars are sized against the larger of the two figures. Bite force figures come from individual studies and vary a lot between sources.
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Shared ancestry
The closest group they share is Theria (subclass), home to 9,319 species.
We know what their shared ancestor was, but not when it lived — no dated family tree spans both of them yet.