🐻
Brown bear
Ursus arctos
Carnivores · Least concern
vs
🐈
Binturong
Arctictis binturong
Carnivores · Vulnerable
3 clips name both of them
682,616 views between them.
Brown bear outweighs Binturong 19× — 241 kg against 13 kg.
Tale of the tape
Body mass
241 kg
🐻 Brown bear · COMBINE
13 kg
🐈 Binturong · COMBINE
Shoulder height
1.2 m
🐻 Brown bear
no figure yet
🐈 Binturong
Body length
2.29 m
🐻 Brown bear · COMBINE
0.88 m
🐈 Binturong · COMBINE
Top speed
47 km/h
🐻 Brown bear
no figure yet
🐈 Binturong
Bite force
751 N
🐻 Brown bear
no figure yet
🐈 Binturong
Maximum lifespan
50 yr
🐻 Brown bear · COMBINE
27 yr
🐈 Binturong · 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).