🐻
Brown bear
Ursus arctos
Carnivores · Least concern
vs
🐆
Leopard
Panthera pardus
Carnivores · Vulnerable
One clip names both of them
2.7 million views between them.
Brown bear outweighs Leopard 4.5× — 241 kg against 53.1 kg.
To scale
Grid at 50 cm
50 cm
1 m
1.5 m
2 m
Silhouettes: PhyloPic — Lukasiniho (CC BY-NC-SA); others CC0.
Brown bear
1.20 m
at the shoulder
Human
1.70 m
full standing height
for scale
Leopard
0.72 m
at the shoulder
Tale of the tape
Body mass
241 kg
🐻 Brown bear · COMBINE
53 kg
🐆 Leopard · COMBINE
Shoulder height
1.2 m
🐻 Brown bear
0.72 m
🐆 Leopard
Body length
2.29 m
🐻 Brown bear · COMBINE
1.64 m
🐆 Leopard · COMBINE
Top speed
47 km/h
🐻 Brown bear
58 km/h
🐆 Leopard
Bite force
751 N
🐻 Brown bear
467 N
🐆 Leopard
Maximum lifespan
50 yr
🐻 Brown bear · COMBINE
27 yr
🐆 Leopard · 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).