🐻
Brown bear
Ursus arctos
Carnivores · Least concern
vs
🐘
Elephant
Loxodonta africana
Mammals · Endangered
4 clips name both of them
75,419 views between them.
Elephant outweighs Brown bear 19× — 4,565 kg against 241 kg.
To scale
Grid at 1 m
1 m
2 m
3 m
Silhouettes: PhyloPic (CC0).
Brown bear
1.20 m
at the shoulder
Human
1.70 m
full standing height
for scale
Elephant
2.80 m
at the shoulder
Tale of the tape
Body mass
241 kg
🐻 Brown bear · COMBINE
4,565 kg
🐘 Elephant · COMBINE
Shoulder height
1.2 m
🐻 Brown bear
2.8 m
🐘 Elephant
Body length
2.29 m
🐻 Brown bear · COMBINE
7.5 m
🐘 Elephant · COMBINE
Top speed
47 km/h
🐻 Brown bear
25 km/h
🐘 Elephant
Bite force
751 N
🐻 Brown bear
no figure yet
🐘 Elephant
Maximum lifespan
50 yr
🐻 Brown bear · COMBINE
80 yr
🐘 Elephant · 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 Theria (subclass), home to 9,319 species.
They last shared an ancestor about 91 million years ago.
Estimates range from 78 to 117 million years; the figure above is the middle estimate.
About this estimate
Dates from Upham, Esselstyn & Jetz 2019, PLoS Biology 17:e3000494 (CC0).