🐻
Brown bear
Ursus arctos
Carnivores · Least concern
vs
🐈
Cat
Felis catus
Carnivores
6 clips name both of them
848,816 views between them.
Brown bear outweighs Cat 62× — 241 kg against 3.9 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
Cat
0.26 m
at the shoulder
Tale of the tape
Body mass
241 kg
🐻 Brown bear · COMBINE
3.9 kg
🐈 Cat · AnAge
Shoulder height
1.2 m
🐻 Brown bear
0.26 m
🐈 Cat
Body length
2.29 m
🐻 Brown bear · COMBINE
no figure yet
🐈 Cat
Top speed
47 km/h
🐻 Brown bear
no figure yet
🐈 Cat
Bite force
751 N
🐻 Brown bear
no figure yet
🐈 Cat
Maximum lifespan
50 yr
🐻 Brown bear · COMBINE
30 yr
🐈 Cat · AnAge
Bars are sized against the larger of the two figures. Bite force figures come from individual studies and vary a lot between sources.
Animais flagrados pela câmera
Imagens reais dos animais deste site — caçando, brigando e levando a vida.
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).