🐻
Brown bear
Ursus arctos
Carnivores · Least concern
vs
🦭
Harbour seal
Phoca vitulina
Carnivores · Least concern
One clip names both of them
43,533 views between them.
Brown bear outweighs Harbour seal 2.6× — 241 kg against 94.3 kg. Both figures are averages across males and females.
Tale of the tape
Body mass
241 kg
🐻 Brown bear · COMBINE
94 kg
🦭 Harbour seal · COMBINE
Shoulder height
1.2 m
🐻 Brown bear
no figure yet
🦭 Harbour seal
Body length
2.29 m
🐻 Brown bear · COMBINE
1.81 m
🦭 Harbour seal · COMBINE
Top speed
47 km/h
🐻 Brown bear
no figure yet
🦭 Harbour seal
Bite force
751 N
🐻 Brown bear
no figure yet
🦭 Harbour seal
Maximum lifespan
50 yr
🐻 Brown bear · COMBINE
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.
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.
We know what their shared ancestor was, but not when it lived — no dated family tree spans both of them yet.