🐻
Brown bear
Ursus arctos
Carnivores · Least concern
vs
🦅
Peregrine falcon
Falco peregrinus
Birds · Least concern
One clip names both of them
14,520 views between them.
Brown bear outweighs Peregrine falcon 320× — 241 kg against 0.8 kg.
Tale of the tape
Body mass
241 kg
🐻 Brown bear · COMBINE
0.76 kg
🦅 Peregrine falcon · AVONET
Shoulder height
1.2 m
🐻 Brown bear
no figure yet
🦅 Peregrine falcon
Body length
2.29 m
🐻 Brown bear · COMBINE
no figure yet
🦅 Peregrine falcon
Top speed
47 km/h
🐻 Brown bear
no figure yet
🦅 Peregrine falcon
Bite force
751 N
🐻 Brown bear
no figure yet
🦅 Peregrine falcon
Maximum lifespan
50 yr
🐻 Brown bear · COMBINE
25 yr
🦅 Peregrine falcon · 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.