🐻
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.
Kamerára vett állatok
Igazi felvételek az oldal állatairól — ahogy vadásznak, ahogy harcolnak, és ahogy egyszerűen csak élnek.
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.