🐻
Brown bear
Ursus arctos
Carnivores · Least concern
vs
🦅
Golden eagle
Aquila chrysaetos
Birds · Least concern
6 clips name both of them
12,794 views between them.
Brown bear outweighs Golden eagle 57× — 241 kg against 4.2 kg. Both figures are averages across males and females.
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
Golden eagle
0.61 m
full standing height · measured standing
Tale of the tape
Body mass
241 kg
🐻 Brown bear · COMBINE
4.25 kg
🦅 Golden eagle · AVONET
Shoulder height
1.2 m
🐻 Brown bear
no figure yet
🦅 Golden eagle
Body length
2.29 m
🐻 Brown bear · COMBINE
no figure yet
🦅 Golden eagle
Top speed
47 km/h
🐻 Brown bear
no figure yet
🦅 Golden eagle
Bite force
751 N
🐻 Brown bear
no figure yet
🦅 Golden eagle
Maximum lifespan
50 yr
🐻 Brown bear · COMBINE
48 yr
🦅 Golden eagle · 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 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.