🐻
Brown bear
Ursus arctos
Carnivores · Least concern
vs
🦉
Great Horned Owl
Bubo virginianus
Birds · Least concern
One clip names both of them
10,549 views between them.
Brown bear outweighs Great Horned Owl 180× — 241 kg against 1.4 kg.
Tale of the tape
Body mass
241 kg
🐻 Brown bear · COMBINE
1.35 kg
🦉 Great Horned Owl · AVONET
Shoulder height
1.2 m
🐻 Brown bear
no figure yet
🦉 Great Horned Owl
Body length
2.29 m
🐻 Brown bear · COMBINE
no figure yet
🦉 Great Horned Owl
Top speed
47 km/h
🐻 Brown bear
no figure yet
🦉 Great Horned Owl
Bite force
751 N
🐻 Brown bear
no figure yet
🦉 Great Horned Owl
Maximum lifespan
50 yr
🐻 Brown bear · COMBINE
29 yr
🦉 Great Horned Owl · 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.