🐻
Brown bear
Ursus arctos
Carnivores · Least concern
vs
🐃
White-tailed deer
Odocoileus virginianus
Mammals · Least concern
50 clips name both of them
696,625 views between them.
Brown bear outweighs White-tailed deer 3.7× — 241 kg against 65.3 kg.
Tale of the tape
Body mass
241 kg
🐻 Brown bear · COMBINE
65 kg
🐃 White-tailed deer · COMBINE
Shoulder height
1.2 m
🐻 Brown bear
no figure yet
🐃 White-tailed deer
Body length
2.29 m
🐻 Brown bear · COMBINE
1.81 m
🐃 White-tailed deer · COMBINE
Top speed
47 km/h
🐻 Brown bear
no figure yet
🐃 White-tailed deer
Bite force
751 N
🐻 Brown bear
no figure yet
🐃 White-tailed deer
Maximum lifespan
50 yr
🐻 Brown bear · COMBINE
23 yr
🐃 White-tailed deer · 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 Laurasiatheria (superorder), home to 4,193 species.
They last shared an ancestor about 64 million years ago.
Estimates range from 58 to 76 million years; the figure above is the middle estimate.
About this estimate
Dates from Upham, Esselstyn & Jetz 2019, PLoS Biology 17:e3000494 (CC0).