🐻
Brown bear
Ursus arctos
Carnivores · Least concern
vs
🐅
Tiger
Panthera tigris
Carnivores · Endangered
6 clips name both of them
19 million views between them.
Brown bear outweighs Tiger 1.9× — 241 kg against 129 kg. Both figures are averages across males and females.
To scale
Grid at 50 cm
50 cm
1 m
1.5 m
2 m
Silhouettes: PhyloPic — Gabriela Palomo-Munoz (CC BY-NC); others CC0.
Brown bear
1.20 m
at the shoulder
Human
1.70 m
full standing height
for scale
Tiger
0.91 m
at the shoulder · measured standing
Tale of the tape
Body mass
241 kg
🐻 Brown bear · COMBINE
129 kg
🐅 Tiger · COMBINE
Shoulder height
1.2 m
🐻 Brown bear
0.91 m
🐅 Tiger
Body length
2.29 m
🐻 Brown bear · COMBINE
2.31 m
🐅 Tiger · COMBINE
Top speed
47 km/h
🐻 Brown bear
54 km/h
🐅 Tiger
Bite force
751 N
🐻 Brown bear
1,525 N
🐅 Tiger
Maximum lifespan
50 yr
🐻 Brown bear · COMBINE
26 yr
🐅 Tiger · 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 Carnivora (order), home to 728 species.
They last shared an ancestor about 39 million years ago.
Estimates range from 32 to 45 million years; the figure above is the middle estimate.
About this estimate
Dates from Upham, Esselstyn & Jetz 2019, PLoS Biology 17:e3000494 (CC0).