🐻
Brown bear
Ursus arctos
Carnivores · Least concern
vs
🐕
Dog
Canis familiaris
Carnivores
5 clips name both of them
18 million views between them.
Brown bear outweighs Dog 6.0× — 241 kg against 40 kg.
Tale of the tape
Body mass
241 kg
🐻 Brown bear · COMBINE
40 kg
🐕 Dog · AnAge
Shoulder height
1.2 m
🐻 Brown bear
no figure yet
🐕 Dog
Body length
2.29 m
🐻 Brown bear · COMBINE
no figure yet
🐕 Dog
Top speed
47 km/h
🐻 Brown bear
no figure yet
🐕 Dog
Bite force
751 N
🐻 Brown bear
no figure yet
🐕 Dog
Maximum lifespan
50 yr
🐻 Brown bear · COMBINE
27 yr
🐕 Dog · 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 Caniformia (suborder), home to 469 species.
They last shared an ancestor about 33 million years ago.
Estimates range from 28 to 40 million years; the figure above is the middle estimate.
About this estimate
Dates from Upham, Esselstyn & Jetz 2019, PLoS Biology 17:e3000494 (CC0).