🐻
Brown bear
Ursus arctos
Carnivores · Least concern
vs
🐈
Iberian lynx
Lynx pardinus
Carnivores · Vulnerable
One clip names both of them
40,586 views between them.
Brown bear outweighs Iberian lynx 24× — 241 kg against 10.2 kg.
Tale of the tape
Body mass
241 kg
🐻 Brown bear · COMBINE
10 kg
🐈 Iberian lynx · COMBINE
Shoulder height
1.2 m
🐻 Brown bear
no figure yet
🐈 Iberian lynx
Body length
2.29 m
🐻 Brown bear · COMBINE
1.03 m
🐈 Iberian lynx · COMBINE
Top speed
47 km/h
🐻 Brown bear
no figure yet
🐈 Iberian lynx
Bite force
751 N
🐻 Brown bear
no figure yet
🐈 Iberian lynx
Maximum lifespan
50 yr
🐻 Brown bear · COMBINE
13 yr
🐈 Iberian lynx · 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 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).