🐻
Brown bear
Ursus arctos
Carnivores · Least concern
vs
🐄
Cow
Bos taurus
Mammals
One clip names both of them
20,619 views between them.
Cow outweighs Brown bear 3.1× — 750 kg against 241 kg.
To scale
Grid at 50 cm
50 cm
1 m
1.5 m
2 m
Silhouettes: PhyloPic — DFoidl (modified by T. Michael Keesey) (CC BY-SA); others CC0.
Brown bear
1.20 m
at the shoulder
Human
1.70 m
full standing height
for scale
Cow
1.28 m
at the shoulder
Tale of the tape
Body mass
241 kg
🐻 Brown bear · COMBINE
750 kg
🐄 Cow · AnAge
Shoulder height
1.2 m
🐻 Brown bear
1.28 m
🐄 Cow
Body length
2.29 m
🐻 Brown bear · COMBINE
no figure yet
🐄 Cow
Top speed
47 km/h
🐻 Brown bear
no figure yet
🐄 Cow
Bite force
751 N
🐻 Brown bear
no figure yet
🐄 Cow
Maximum lifespan
50 yr
🐻 Brown bear · COMBINE
20 yr
🐄 Cow · AnAge
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).