🐻
Brown bear
Ursus arctos
Carnivores · Least concern
vs
🦊
Fennec fox
Vulpes zerda
Carnivores · Least concern
One clip names both of them
251 views between them.
Brown bear outweighs Fennec fox 200× — 241 kg against 1.2 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
Fennec fox
0.20 m
at the shoulder
Tale of the tape
Body mass
241 kg
🐻 Brown bear · COMBINE
1.21 kg
🦊 Fennec fox · COMBINE
Shoulder height
1.2 m
🐻 Brown bear
0.2 m
🦊 Fennec fox
Body length
2.29 m
🐻 Brown bear · COMBINE
0.39 m
🦊 Fennec fox · COMBINE
Top speed
47 km/h
🐻 Brown bear
no figure yet
🦊 Fennec fox
Bite force
751 N
🐻 Brown bear
no figure yet
🦊 Fennec fox
Maximum lifespan
50 yr
🐻 Brown bear · COMBINE
16 yr
🦊 Fennec fox · COMBINE
Bars are sized against the larger of the two figures. Bite force figures come from individual studies and vary a lot between sources.
Les animaux pris sur le vif
De vraies images des animaux de ce site — à la chasse, au combat, ou vaquant simplement à leurs occupations.
Shared ancestry
The closest group they share is Caniformia (suborder), home to 469 species.
They last shared an ancestor about 33 million years ago.
Estimates range from 28 to 40 million years; the figure above is the middle estimate.
About this estimate
Dates from Upham, Esselstyn & Jetz 2019, PLoS Biology 17:e3000494 (CC0).