🐻
Brown bear
Ursus arctos
Carnivores · Least concern
vs
🐃
Alpine ibex
Capra ibex
Mammals · Least concern
One clip names both of them
258,965 views between them.
Brown bear outweighs Alpine ibex 3.1× — 241 kg against 77 kg.
Tale of the tape
Body mass
241 kg
🐻 Brown bear · COMBINE
77 kg
🐃 Alpine ibex · COMBINE
Shoulder height
1.2 m
🐻 Brown bear
no figure yet
🐃 Alpine ibex
Body length
2.29 m
🐻 Brown bear · COMBINE
1.7 m
🐃 Alpine ibex · COMBINE
Top speed
47 km/h
🐻 Brown bear
no figure yet
🐃 Alpine ibex
Bite force
751 N
🐻 Brown bear
no figure yet
🐃 Alpine ibex
Maximum lifespan
50 yr
🐻 Brown bear · COMBINE
22 yr
🐃 Alpine ibex · 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 Laurasiatheria (superorder), home to 4,193 species.
They last shared an ancestor about 64 million years ago.
Estimates range from 58 to 76 million years; the figure above is the middle estimate.
About this estimate
Dates from Upham, Esselstyn & Jetz 2019, PLoS Biology 17:e3000494 (CC0).