🐻
Brown bear
Ursus arctos
Carnivores · Least concern
vs
🦍
Western gorilla
Gorilla gorilla
Primates · Critically endangered
4 clips name both of them
2.5 million views between them.
Brown bear outweighs Western gorilla 1.9× — 241 kg against 126 kg.
Tale of the tape
Body mass
241 kg
🐻 Brown bear · COMBINE
126 kg
🦍 Western gorilla · COMBINE
Shoulder height
1.2 m
🐻 Brown bear
no figure yet
🦍 Western gorilla
Body length
2.29 m
🐻 Brown bear · COMBINE
1.67 m
🦍 Western gorilla · COMBINE
Top speed
47 km/h
🐻 Brown bear
31 km/h
🦍 Western gorilla
Bite force
751 N
🐻 Brown bear
1,723 N
🦍 Western gorilla
Maximum lifespan
50 yr
🐻 Brown bear · COMBINE
55 yr
🦍 Western gorilla · 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.
We know what their shared ancestor was, but not when it lived — no dated family tree spans both of them yet.