🐻
Brown bear
Ursus arctos
Carnivores · Least concern
vs
🦅
Golden eagle
Aquila chrysaetos
Birds · Least concern
6 clips name both of them
12,794 views between them.
Brown bear outweighs Golden eagle 57× — 241 kg against 4.2 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 (CC0).
Brown bear
1.20 m
at the shoulder
Human
1.70 m
full standing height
for scale
Golden eagle
0.61 m
full standing height · measured standing
Tale of the tape
Body mass
241 kg
🐻 Brown bear · COMBINE
4.25 kg
🦅 Golden eagle · AVONET
Shoulder height
1.2 m
🐻 Brown bear
no figure yet
🦅 Golden eagle
Body length
2.29 m
🐻 Brown bear · COMBINE
no figure yet
🦅 Golden eagle
Top speed
47 km/h
🐻 Brown bear
no figure yet
🦅 Golden eagle
Bite force
751 N
🐻 Brown bear
no figure yet
🦅 Golden eagle
Maximum lifespan
50 yr
🐻 Brown bear · COMBINE
48 yr
🦅 Golden eagle · AnAge
Bars are sized against the larger of the two figures. Bite force figures come from individual studies and vary a lot between sources.
Dieren voor de camera
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Shared ancestry
The closest group they share is Tetrapoda (superclass), home to 51,389 species.
We know what their shared ancestor was, but not when it lived — no dated family tree spans both of them yet.