🐻
Brown bear
Ursus arctos
Carnivores · Least concern
vs
🦡
Wolverine
Gulo gulo
Carnivores · Least concern
2 clips name both of them
44,252 views between them.
Brown bear outweighs Wolverine 19× — 241 kg against 12.8 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 (CC0).
Brown bear
1.20 m
at the shoulder
Human
1.70 m
full standing height
for scale
Wolverine
0.39 m
at the shoulder
Tale of the tape
Body mass
241 kg
🐻 Brown bear · COMBINE
13 kg
🦡 Wolverine · COMBINE
Shoulder height
1.2 m
🐻 Brown bear
0.39 m
🦡 Wolverine
Body length
2.29 m
🐻 Brown bear · COMBINE
0.81 m
🦡 Wolverine · COMBINE
Top speed
47 km/h
🐻 Brown bear
no figure yet
🦡 Wolverine
Bite force
751 N
🐻 Brown bear
no figure yet
🦡 Wolverine
Maximum lifespan
50 yr
🐻 Brown bear · COMBINE
19 yr
🦡 Wolverine · 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 Caniformia (suborder), home to 469 species.
They last shared an ancestor about 28 million years ago.
Estimates range from 24 to 34 million years; the figure above is the middle estimate.
About this estimate
Dates from Upham, Esselstyn & Jetz 2019, PLoS Biology 17:e3000494 (CC0).