🐄
Cow
Bos taurus
Mammals
vs
🐻
Spectacled-bear
Tremarctos ornatus
Carnivores · Vulnerable
One clip names both of them
4,154 views between them.
Cow outweighs Spectacled-bear 6.9× — 750 kg against 109 kg.
To scale
Grid at 50 cm
50 cm
1 m
1.5 m
2 m
Silhouettes: PhyloPic — DFoidl (modified by T. Michael Keesey) (CC BY-SA); others CC0.
Cow
1.28 m
at the shoulder
Human
1.70 m
full standing height
for scale
Spectacled-bear
0.75 m
at the shoulder
Tale of the tape
Body mass
750 kg
🐄 Cow · AnAge
109 kg
🐻 Spectacled-bear · COMBINE
Shoulder height
1.28 m
🐄 Cow
0.75 m
🐻 Spectacled-bear
Body length
no figure yet
🐄 Cow
1.78 m
🐻 Spectacled-bear · COMBINE
Maximum lifespan
20 yr
🐄 Cow · AnAge
39 yr
🐻 Spectacled-bear · COMBINE
Bars are sized against the larger of the two figures.
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).