🐻
Brown bear
Ursus arctos
Carnivores · Least concern
vs
🐒
Rhesus macaque
Macaca mulatta
Primates · Least concern
2 clips name both of them
501 views between them.
Brown bear outweighs Rhesus macaque 36× — 241 kg against 6.6 kg.
Tale of the tape
Body mass
241 kg
🐻 Brown bear · COMBINE
6.61 kg
🐒 Rhesus macaque · COMBINE
Shoulder height
1.2 m
🐻 Brown bear
no figure yet
🐒 Rhesus macaque
Body length
2.29 m
🐻 Brown bear · COMBINE
0.66 m
🐒 Rhesus macaque · COMBINE
Top speed
47 km/h
🐻 Brown bear
no figure yet
🐒 Rhesus macaque
Bite force
751 N
🐻 Brown bear
no figure yet
🐒 Rhesus macaque
Maximum lifespan
50 yr
🐻 Brown bear · COMBINE
40 yr
🐒 Rhesus macaque · 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.
They last shared an ancestor about 81 million years ago.
Estimates range from 74 to 89 million years; the figure above is the middle estimate.
About this estimate
Dates from Upham, Esselstyn & Jetz 2019, PLoS Biology 17:e3000494 (CC0).