🐻
Bears
Ursidae
Carnivores
average across the group
vs
🐺
Grey wolf
Canis lupus
Carnivores · Least concern
2 clips name both of them
14 million views between them.
Bears outweigh Grey wolf 5.2× — 152 kg against 29.2 kg.
To scale
Grid at 50 cm
50 cm
1 m
1.5 m
2 m
Silhouettes: PhyloPic (CC0).
Bears
0.92 m
at the shoulder
Human
1.70 m
full standing height
for scale
Grey wolf
0.73 m
at the shoulder · measured lying down
Tale of the tape
Body mass
152 kg
🐻 Bears · group average
29 kg
🐺 Grey wolf · COMBINE
Shoulder height
0.92 m
🐻 Bears · group average
0.73 m
🐺 Grey wolf
Body length
1.75 m
🐻 Bears · group average
1.27 m
🐺 Grey wolf · COMBINE
Top speed
43 km/h
🐻 Bears · group average
62 km/h
🐺 Grey wolf
Bite force
1,436 N
🐻 Bears · group average
593 N
🐺 Grey wolf
Maximum lifespan
40 yr
🐻 Bears · group average
29 yr
🐺 Grey wolf · 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.
We know what their shared ancestor was, but not when it lived — no dated family tree spans both of them yet.