🐻
Brown bear
Ursus arctos
Carnivores · Least concern
vs
🐻
Bears
Ursidae
Carnivores
average across the group
4 clips name both of them
4.9 million views between them.
Brown bear outweighs Bears 1.6× — 241 kg against 152 kg.
To scale
Grid at 50 cm
50 cm
1 m
1.5 m
2 m
Silhouettes: PhyloPic (CC0).
Brown bear
1.20 m
at the shoulder
Human
1.70 m
full standing height
for scale
Bears
0.92 m
at the shoulder
Tale of the tape
Body mass
241 kg
🐻 Brown bear · COMBINE
152 kg
🐻 Bears · group average
Shoulder height
1.2 m
🐻 Brown bear
0.92 m
🐻 Bears · group average
Body length
2.29 m
🐻 Brown bear · COMBINE
1.75 m
🐻 Bears · group average
Top speed
47 km/h
🐻 Brown bear
43 km/h
🐻 Bears · group average
Bite force
751 N
🐻 Brown bear
1,436 N
🐻 Bears · group average
Maximum lifespan
50 yr
🐻 Brown bear · COMBINE
40 yr
🐻 Bears · 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 Caniformia (suborder), home to 469 species.
We know what their shared ancestor was, but not when it lived — no dated family tree spans both of them yet.