🐻
Brown bear
Ursus arctos
Carnivores · Least concern
vs
🦌
Red deer
Cervus elaphus
Mammals · Least concern
130 clips name both of them
3 million views between them.
Brown bear outweighs Red deer 1.5× — 241 kg against 160 kg.
To scale
Grid at 50 cm
50 cm
1 m
1.5 m
2 m
Silhouettes: PhyloPic (CC0).
Brown bear
1.20 m
at the shoulder
Human
1.70 m
full standing height
for scale
Red deer
1.13 m
at the shoulder
Tale of the tape
Body mass
241 kg
🐻 Brown bear · COMBINE
160 kg
🦌 Red deer · COMBINE
Shoulder height
1.2 m
🐻 Brown bear
1.13 m
🦌 Red deer
Body length
2.29 m
🐻 Brown bear · COMBINE
2.14 m
🦌 Red deer · COMBINE
Top speed
47 km/h
🐻 Brown bear
no figure yet
🦌 Red deer
Bite force
751 N
🐻 Brown bear
no figure yet
🦌 Red deer
Maximum lifespan
50 yr
🐻 Brown bear · COMBINE
31 yr
🦌 Red deer · 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).