🐻
Bears
Ursidae
Carnivores
average across the group
vs
🦭
Harbour seal
Phoca vitulina
Carnivores · Least concern
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Bears outweigh Harbour seal 1.6× — 152 kg against 94.3 kg. Both figures are averages across males and females.
Tale of the tape
Body mass
152 kg
🐻 Bears · group average
94 kg
🦭 Harbour seal · COMBINE
Shoulder height
0.92 m
🐻 Bears · group average
no figure yet
🦭 Harbour seal
Body length
1.75 m
🐻 Bears · group average
1.81 m
🦭 Harbour seal · COMBINE
Top speed
43 km/h
🐻 Bears · group average
no figure yet
🦭 Harbour seal
Bite force
1,436 N
🐻 Bears · group average
no figure yet
🦭 Harbour seal
Maximum lifespan
40 yr
🐻 Bears · group average
48 yr
🦭 Harbour seal · 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 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.