🐻
Brown bear
Ursus arctos
Carnivores · Least concern
vs
🦦
Eurasian otter
Lutra lutra
Carnivores · Near threatened
One clip names both of them
17,268 views between them.
Brown bear outweighs Eurasian otter 31× — 241 kg against 7.8 kg.
Tale of the tape
Body mass
241 kg
🐻 Brown bear · COMBINE
7.81 kg
🦦 Eurasian otter · COMBINE
Shoulder height
1.2 m
🐻 Brown bear
no figure yet
🦦 Eurasian otter
Body length
2.29 m
🐻 Brown bear · COMBINE
0.75 m
🦦 Eurasian otter · COMBINE
Top speed
47 km/h
🐻 Brown bear
no figure yet
🦦 Eurasian otter
Bite force
751 N
🐻 Brown bear
no figure yet
🦦 Eurasian otter
Maximum lifespan
50 yr
🐻 Brown bear · COMBINE
22 yr
🦦 Eurasian otter · COMBINE
Bars are sized against the larger of the two figures. Bite force figures come from individual studies and vary a lot between sources.
חיות מול המצלמה
צילומים אמיתיים של החיות באתר – צדות, נלחמות, ופשוט ממשיכות בשלהן.
Shared ancestry
The closest group they share is Caniformia (suborder), home to 469 species.
They last shared an ancestor about 28 million years ago.
Estimates range from 24 to 34 million years; the figure above is the middle estimate.
About this estimate
Dates from Upham, Esselstyn & Jetz 2019, PLoS Biology 17:e3000494 (CC0).