🐻
Bears
Ursidae
Carnivores
average across the group
vs
🐆
Big cats
Pantherinae
Mammals
average across the group
2 clips name both of them
415,582 views between them.
Bears outweigh Big cats 1.7× — 152 kg against 92 kg.
To scale
Grid at 50 cm
50 cm
1 m
1.5 m
2 m
Silhouettes: PhyloPic (CC0).
Bears
0.92 m
at the shoulder
Human
1.70 m
full standing height
for scale
Big cats
0.82 m
at the shoulder
Tale of the tape
Body mass
152 kg
🐻 Bears · group average
92 kg
🐆 Big cats · group average
Shoulder height
0.92 m
🐻 Bears · group average
0.82 m
🐆 Big cats · group average
Body length
1.75 m
🐻 Bears · group average
1.79 m
🐆 Big cats · group average
Top speed
43 km/h
🐻 Bears · group average
56 km/h
🐆 Big cats · group average
Bite force
1,436 N
🐻 Bears · group average
1,194 N
🐆 Big cats · group average
Maximum lifespan
40 yr
🐻 Bears · group average
27 yr
🐆 Big cats · group average
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 Carnivora (order), home to 728 species.
We know what their shared ancestor was, but not when it lived — no dated family tree spans both of them yet.