🐻
Brown bear
Ursus arctos
Carnivores · Least concern
vs
🐾
Sloth bear
Melursus ursinus
Carnivores · Vulnerable
3 clips name both of them
22,017 views between them.
Brown bear outweighs Sloth bear 2.4× — 241 kg against 100 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
Sloth bear
0.75 m
at the shoulder
Tale of the tape
Body mass
241 kg
🐻 Brown bear · COMBINE
100 kg
🐾 Sloth bear · COMBINE
Shoulder height
1.2 m
🐻 Brown bear
0.75 m
🐾 Sloth bear
Body length
2.29 m
🐻 Brown bear · COMBINE
1.7 m
🐾 Sloth bear · COMBINE
Top speed
47 km/h
🐻 Brown bear
no figure yet
🐾 Sloth bear
Bite force
751 N
🐻 Brown bear
no figure yet
🐾 Sloth bear
Maximum lifespan
50 yr
🐻 Brown bear · COMBINE
40 yr
🐾 Sloth bear · 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 Ursidae (family), home to 32 species.
They last shared an ancestor about 3.4 million years ago.
Estimates range from 2.7 to 5.0 million years; the figure above is the middle estimate.
About this estimate
Dates from Upham, Esselstyn & Jetz 2019, PLoS Biology 17:e3000494 (CC0).