🐻❄️
Polar bear
Ursus maritimus
Carnivores · Vulnerable
vs
🐅
Tiger
Panthera tigris
Carnivores · Endangered
2 clips name both of them
415,582 views between them.
Polar bear outweighs Tiger 2.9× — 372 kg against 129 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 — Gabriela Palomo-Munoz (CC BY-NC); others CC0.
Polar bear
1.45 m
at the shoulder
Human
1.70 m
full standing height
for scale
Tiger
0.91 m
at the shoulder · measured standing
Tale of the tape
Body mass
372 kg
🐻❄️ Polar bear · COMBINE
129 kg
🐅 Tiger · COMBINE
Shoulder height
1.45 m
🐻❄️ Polar bear
0.91 m
🐅 Tiger
Body length
2.25 m
🐻❄️ Polar bear · COMBINE
2.31 m
🐅 Tiger · COMBINE
Top speed
39 km/h
🐻❄️ Polar bear
54 km/h
🐅 Tiger
Bite force
2,121 N
🐻❄️ Polar bear
1,525 N
🐅 Tiger
Maximum lifespan
45 yr
🐻❄️ Polar bear · COMBINE
26 yr
🐅 Tiger · 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).