🐻❄️
Polar bear
Ursus maritimus
Carnivores · Vulnerable
vs
🦭
Harbour seal
Phoca vitulina
Carnivores · Least concern
11 clips name both of them
67 million views between them.
Polar bear outweighs Harbour seal 3.9× — 372 kg against 94.3 kg. Both figures are averages across males and females.
Tale of the tape
Body mass
372 kg
🐻❄️ Polar bear · COMBINE
94 kg
🦭 Harbour seal · COMBINE
Shoulder height
1.45 m
🐻❄️ Polar bear
no figure yet
🦭 Harbour seal
Body length
2.25 m
🐻❄️ Polar bear · COMBINE
1.81 m
🦭 Harbour seal · COMBINE
Top speed
39 km/h
🐻❄️ Polar bear
no figure yet
🦭 Harbour seal
Bite force
2,121 N
🐻❄️ Polar bear
no figure yet
🦭 Harbour seal
Maximum lifespan
45 yr
🐻❄️ Polar bear · COMBINE
48 yr
🦭 Harbour seal · 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
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Shared ancestry
The closest group they share is Caniformia (suborder), home to 469 species.
We know what their shared ancestor was, but not when it lived — no dated family tree spans both of them yet.