🐆
Jaguar
Panthera onca
Carnivores · Near threatened
vs
🐻
Bears
Ursidae
Carnivores
average across the group
One clip names both of them
11,531 views between them.
Bears outweigh Jaguar 1.9× — 152 kg against 81.2 kg.
To scale
Grid at 50 cm
50 cm
1 m
1.5 m
2 m
Silhouettes: PhyloPic — Lukasiniho (CC BY-NC-SA); others CC0.
Jaguar
0.71 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
81 kg
🐆 Jaguar · COMBINE
152 kg
🐻 Bears · group average
Shoulder height
0.71 m
🐆 Jaguar
0.92 m
🐻 Bears · group average
Body length
1.59 m
🐆 Jaguar · COMBINE
1.75 m
🐻 Bears · group average
Top speed
no figure yet
🐆 Jaguar
43 km/h
🐻 Bears · group average
Bite force
1,014 N
🐆 Jaguar
1,436 N
🐻 Bears · group average
Maximum lifespan
28 yr
🐆 Jaguar · 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 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.