🐆
Jaguar
Panthera onca
Carnivores · Near threatened
vs
🐻❄️
Polar bear
Ursus maritimus
Carnivores · Vulnerable
One clip names both of them
11,531 views between them.
Polar bear outweighs Jaguar 4.6× — 372 kg against 81.2 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 — Lukasiniho (CC BY-NC-SA); others CC0.
Jaguar
0.71 m
at the shoulder
Human
1.70 m
full standing height
for scale
Polar bear
1.45 m
at the shoulder
Tale of the tape
Body mass
81 kg
🐆 Jaguar · COMBINE
372 kg
🐻❄️ Polar bear · COMBINE
Shoulder height
0.71 m
🐆 Jaguar
1.45 m
🐻❄️ Polar bear
Body length
1.59 m
🐆 Jaguar · COMBINE
2.25 m
🐻❄️ Polar bear · COMBINE
Top speed
no figure yet
🐆 Jaguar
39 km/h
🐻❄️ Polar bear
Bite force
1,014 N
🐆 Jaguar
2,121 N
🐻❄️ Polar bear
Maximum lifespan
28 yr
🐆 Jaguar · COMBINE
45 yr
🐻❄️ Polar bear · 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).