🐘
Asian elephant
Elephas maximus
Mammals · Endangered
vs
🐻
Brown bear
Ursus arctos
Carnivores · Least concern
One clip names both of them
163,875 views between them.
Asian elephant outweighs Brown bear 13× — 3,220 kg against 241 kg.
To scale
Grid at 1 m
1 m
2 m
3 m
Silhouettes: PhyloPic — T. Michael Keesey (CC BY); others CC0.
Asian elephant
2.55 m
at the shoulder
Human
1.70 m
full standing height
for scale
Brown bear
1.20 m
at the shoulder
Tale of the tape
Body mass
3,220 kg
🐘 Asian elephant · COMBINE
241 kg
🐻 Brown bear · COMBINE
Shoulder height
2.55 m
🐘 Asian elephant
1.2 m
🐻 Brown bear
Body length
4.16 m
🐘 Asian elephant · COMBINE
2.29 m
🐻 Brown bear · COMBINE
Top speed
no figure yet
🐘 Asian elephant
47 km/h
🐻 Brown bear
Bite force
no figure yet
🐘 Asian elephant
751 N
🐻 Brown bear
Maximum lifespan
80 yr
🐘 Asian elephant · COMBINE
50 yr
🐻 Brown 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.
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Shared ancestry
The closest group they share is Theria (subclass), home to 9,319 species.
They last shared an ancestor about 91 million years ago.
Estimates range from 78 to 117 million years; the figure above is the middle estimate.
About this estimate
Dates from Upham, Esselstyn & Jetz 2019, PLoS Biology 17:e3000494 (CC0).