🐻
Brown bear
Ursus arctos
Carnivores · Least concern
vs
🐒
Ring-tailed lemur
Lemur catta
Primates · Endangered
2 clips name both of them
1,392 views between them.
Brown bear outweighs Ring-tailed lemur 94× — 241 kg against 2.6 kg.
Tale of the tape
Body mass
241 kg
🐻 Brown bear · COMBINE
2.56 kg
🐒 Ring-tailed lemur · COMBINE
Shoulder height
1.2 m
🐻 Brown bear
no figure yet
🐒 Ring-tailed lemur
Body length
2.29 m
🐻 Brown bear · COMBINE
0.42 m
🐒 Ring-tailed lemur · COMBINE
Top speed
47 km/h
🐻 Brown bear
no figure yet
🐒 Ring-tailed lemur
Bite force
751 N
🐻 Brown bear
no figure yet
🐒 Ring-tailed lemur
Maximum lifespan
50 yr
🐻 Brown bear · COMBINE
37 yr
🐒 Ring-tailed lemur · 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).