🐻
Brown bear
Ursus arctos
Carnivores · Least concern
vs
🐾
Red Panda
Ailurus fulgens
Carnivores · Endangered
One clip names both of them
10 views between them.
Brown bear outweighs Red Panda 51× — 241 kg against 4.7 kg.
Tale of the tape
Body mass
241 kg
🐻 Brown bear · COMBINE
4.75 kg
🐾 Red Panda · COMBINE
Shoulder height
1.2 m
🐻 Brown bear
no figure yet
🐾 Red Panda
Body length
2.29 m
🐻 Brown bear · COMBINE
0.61 m
🐾 Red Panda · COMBINE
Top speed
47 km/h
🐻 Brown bear
no figure yet
🐾 Red Panda
Bite force
751 N
🐻 Brown bear
no figure yet
🐾 Red Panda
Maximum lifespan
50 yr
🐻 Brown bear · COMBINE
19 yr
🐾 Red Panda · 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 Caniformia (suborder), home to 469 species.
They last shared an ancestor about 28 million years ago.
Estimates range from 24 to 34 million years; the figure above is the middle estimate.
About this estimate
Dates from Upham, Esselstyn & Jetz 2019, PLoS Biology 17:e3000494 (CC0).