🐻
Bears
Ursidae
Carnivores
average across the group
vs
🐆
Big cats
Pantherinae
Mammals
average across the group
2 clips name both of them
415,582 views between them.
Bears outweigh Big cats 1.7× — 152 kg against 92 kg.
To scale
Grid at 50 cm
50 cm
1 m
1.5 m
2 m
Silhouettes: PhyloPic (CC0).
Bears
0.92 m
at the shoulder
Human
1.70 m
full standing height
for scale
Big cats
0.82 m
at the shoulder
Tale of the tape
Body mass
152 kg
🐻 Bears · group average
92 kg
🐆 Big cats · group average
Shoulder height
0.92 m
🐻 Bears · group average
0.82 m
🐆 Big cats · group average
Body length
1.75 m
🐻 Bears · group average
1.79 m
🐆 Big cats · group average
Top speed
43 km/h
🐻 Bears · group average
56 km/h
🐆 Big cats · group average
Bite force
1,436 N
🐻 Bears · group average
1,194 N
🐆 Big cats · group average
Maximum lifespan
40 yr
🐻 Bears · group average
27 yr
🐆 Big cats · group average
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
Echte beelden van de dieren op deze site — hoe ze jagen, vechten en gewoon hun eigen gang gaan.
Shared ancestry
The closest group they share is Carnivora (order), home to 728 species.
We know what their shared ancestor was, but not when it lived — no dated family tree spans both of them yet.