🐒
Rhesus macaque
Macaca mulatta
Primates · Least concern
vs
🐻❄️
Polar bear
Ursus maritimus
Carnivores · Vulnerable
One clip names both of them
12,960 views between them.
Polar bear outweighs Rhesus macaque 56× — 372 kg against 6.6 kg. Both figures are averages across males and females.
Tale of the tape
Body mass
6.61 kg
🐒 Rhesus macaque · COMBINE
372 kg
🐻❄️ Polar bear · COMBINE
Shoulder height
no figure yet
🐒 Rhesus macaque
1.45 m
🐻❄️ Polar bear
Body length
0.66 m
🐒 Rhesus macaque · COMBINE
2.25 m
🐻❄️ Polar bear · COMBINE
Top speed
no figure yet
🐒 Rhesus macaque
39 km/h
🐻❄️ Polar bear
Bite force
no figure yet
🐒 Rhesus macaque
2,121 N
🐻❄️ Polar bear
Maximum lifespan
40 yr
🐒 Rhesus macaque · 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 Theria (subclass), home to 9,319 species.
They last shared an ancestor about 81 million years ago.
Estimates range from 74 to 89 million years; the figure above is the middle estimate.
About this estimate
Dates from Upham, Esselstyn & Jetz 2019, PLoS Biology 17:e3000494 (CC0).