🐻
Brown bear
Ursus arctos
Carnivores · Least concern
vs
🐃
Blue wildebeest
Connochaetes taurinus
Mammals · Least concern
One clip names both of them
22,002 views between them.
Brown bear outweighs Blue wildebeest 1.3× — 241 kg against 181 kg.
Tale of the tape
Body mass
241 kg
🐻 Brown bear · COMBINE
181 kg
🐃 Blue wildebeest · COMBINE
Shoulder height
1.2 m
🐻 Brown bear
no figure yet
🐃 Blue wildebeest
Body length
2.29 m
🐻 Brown bear · COMBINE
2.21 m
🐃 Blue wildebeest · COMBINE
Top speed
47 km/h
🐻 Brown bear
no figure yet
🐃 Blue wildebeest
Bite force
751 N
🐻 Brown bear
no figure yet
🐃 Blue wildebeest
Maximum lifespan
50 yr
🐻 Brown bear · COMBINE
25 yr
🐃 Blue wildebeest · 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 Laurasiatheria (superorder), home to 4,193 species.
They last shared an ancestor about 64 million years ago.
Estimates range from 58 to 76 million years; the figure above is the middle estimate.
About this estimate
Dates from Upham, Esselstyn & Jetz 2019, PLoS Biology 17:e3000494 (CC0).