🐻
Brown bear
Ursus arctos
Carnivores · Least concern
vs
🐎
Horse
Equus ferus caballus
Mammals
2 clips name both of them
4,273 views between them.
Horse outweighs Brown bear 1.2× — 300 kg against 241 kg.
To scale
Grid at 50 cm
50 cm
1 m
1.5 m
2 m
Silhouettes: PhyloPic (CC0).
Brown bear
1.20 m
at the shoulder
Human
1.70 m
full standing height
for scale
Horse
1.61 m
at the shoulder
Tale of the tape
Body mass
241 kg
🐻 Brown bear · COMBINE
300 kg
🐎 Horse · AnAge
Shoulder height
1.2 m
🐻 Brown bear
1.61 m
🐎 Horse
Body length
2.29 m
🐻 Brown bear · COMBINE
no figure yet
🐎 Horse
Top speed
47 km/h
🐻 Brown bear
64 km/h
🐎 Horse
Bite force
751 N
🐻 Brown bear
no figure yet
🐎 Horse
Maximum lifespan
50 yr
🐻 Brown bear · COMBINE
57 yr
🐎 Horse · 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 Laurasiatheria (superorder), home to 4,193 species.
They last shared an ancestor about 64 million years ago.
Estimates range from 58 to 76 million years; the figure above is the middle estimate.
About this estimate
Dates from Upham, Esselstyn & Jetz 2019, PLoS Biology 17:e3000494 (CC0).