🐻
Brown bear
Ursus arctos
Carnivores · Least concern
vs
🦡
Fisher
Martes pennanti
Carnivores · Least concern
One clip names both of them
4,096 views between them.
Brown bear outweighs Fisher 76× — 241 kg against 3.2 kg.
Tale of the tape
Body mass
241 kg
🐻 Brown bear · COMBINE
3.17 kg
🦡 Fisher · COMBINE
Shoulder height
1.2 m
🐻 Brown bear
no figure yet
🦡 Fisher
Body length
2.29 m
🐻 Brown bear · COMBINE
0.69 m
🦡 Fisher · COMBINE
Top speed
47 km/h
🐻 Brown bear
no figure yet
🦡 Fisher
Bite force
751 N
🐻 Brown bear
no figure yet
🦡 Fisher
Maximum lifespan
50 yr
🐻 Brown bear · COMBINE
14 yr
🦡 Fisher · 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 Caniformia (suborder), home to 469 species.
We know what their shared ancestor was, but not when it lived — no dated family tree spans both of them yet.