🐻
Brown bear
Ursus arctos
Carnivores · Least concern
vs
🐼
Giant panda
Ailuropoda melanoleuca
Carnivores · Vulnerable
3 clips name both of them
239 views between them.
Brown bear outweighs Giant panda 2.0× — 241 kg against 118 kg.
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
Giant panda
0.68 m
at the shoulder
Tale of the tape
Body mass
241 kg
🐻 Brown bear · COMBINE
118 kg
🐼 Giant panda · COMBINE
Shoulder height
1.2 m
🐻 Brown bear
0.68 m
🐼 Giant panda
Body length
2.29 m
🐻 Brown bear · COMBINE
1.42 m
🐼 Giant panda · COMBINE
Top speed
47 km/h
🐻 Brown bear
no figure yet
🐼 Giant panda
Bite force
751 N
🐻 Brown bear
no figure yet
🐼 Giant panda
Maximum lifespan
50 yr
🐻 Brown bear · COMBINE
37 yr
🐼 Giant panda · 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 Ursidae (family), home to 32 species.
They last shared an ancestor about 9.8 million years ago.
Estimates range from 8.0 to 13 million years; the figure above is the middle estimate.
About this estimate
Dates from Upham, Esselstyn & Jetz 2019, PLoS Biology 17:e3000494 (CC0).