🐻
Brown bear
Ursus arctos
Carnivores · Least concern
vs
🦅
Red-shouldered Hawk
Buteo lineatus
Birds · Least concern
One clip names both of them
10,641 views between them.
Brown bear outweighs Red-shouldered Hawk 400× — 241 kg against 0.6 kg. Both figures are averages across males and females.
Tale of the tape
Body mass
241 kg
🐻 Brown bear · COMBINE
0.6 kg
🦅 Red-shouldered Hawk · AVONET
Shoulder height
1.2 m
🐻 Brown bear
no figure yet
🦅 Red-shouldered Hawk
Body length
2.29 m
🐻 Brown bear · COMBINE
no figure yet
🦅 Red-shouldered Hawk
Top speed
47 km/h
🐻 Brown bear
no figure yet
🦅 Red-shouldered Hawk
Bite force
751 N
🐻 Brown bear
no figure yet
🦅 Red-shouldered Hawk
Maximum lifespan
50 yr
🐻 Brown bear · COMBINE
22 yr
🦅 Red-shouldered Hawk · 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.