🦉
Barred Owl
Strix varia
Birds · Least concern
vs
🐻
Brown bear
Ursus arctos
Carnivores · Least concern
One clip names both of them
157 views between them.
Brown bear outweighs Barred Owl 340× — 241 kg against 0.7 kg.
Tale of the tape
Body mass
0.71 kg
🦉 Barred Owl · AVONET
241 kg
🐻 Brown bear · COMBINE
Shoulder height
no figure yet
🦉 Barred Owl
1.2 m
🐻 Brown bear
Body length
no figure yet
🦉 Barred Owl
2.29 m
🐻 Brown bear · COMBINE
Top speed
no figure yet
🦉 Barred Owl
47 km/h
🐻 Brown bear
Bite force
no figure yet
🦉 Barred Owl
751 N
🐻 Brown bear
Maximum lifespan
34 yr
🦉 Barred Owl · AnAge
50 yr
🐻 Brown bear · COMBINE
Bars are sized against the larger of the two figures. Bite force figures come from individual studies and vary a lot between sources.
Animals caught on camera
Real footage of the animals on this site — hunting, fighting, and getting on with it.
Shared ancestry
The closest group they share is Tetrapoda (superclass), home to 51,389 species.
We know what their shared ancestor was, but not when it lived — no dated family tree spans both of them yet.