🐻
Brown bear
Ursus arctos
Carnivores · Least concern
vs
🐍
Snakes
Serpentes
Reptiles
average across the group
3 clips name both of them
113,261 views between them.
Brown bear outweighs Snakes 3.1× — 241 kg against 77.5 kg.
Tale of the tape
Body mass
241 kg
🐻 Brown bear · COMBINE
77 kg
🐍 Snakes · group average
Shoulder height
1.2 m
🐻 Brown bear
no figure yet
🐍 Snakes
Body length
2.29 m
🐻 Brown bear · COMBINE
3.9 m
🐍 Snakes · group average
Top speed
47 km/h
🐻 Brown bear
no figure yet
🐍 Snakes
Bite force
751 N
🐻 Brown bear
no figure yet
🐍 Snakes
Maximum lifespan
50 yr
🐻 Brown bear · COMBINE
27 yr
🐍 Snakes · group average
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.