It is hard to guess what a Brown bear weights. But we have the answer:
An adult Brown bear (Ursus arctos) on average weights 196.14 kg (432.42 lbs).
The Brown bear is from the family Ursidae (genus: Ursus). It is usually born with about 500 grams (1.1 lbs). They can live for up to 50 years. When reaching adult age, they grow up to 1.49 meter (4′ 11″). Usually, Brown bears have 2 babies per litter.
As a reference: An average human weights in at 62 kg (137 lbs) and reaches an average size of 1.65m (5′ 5″). Humans spend 280 days (40 weeks) in the womb of their mother and reach around 75 years of age.
The brown bear (Ursus arctos) is a bear species found across Eurasia and North America. In North America, the populations of brown bears are called grizzly bears. It is one of the largest living terrestrial members of the order Carnivora, rivaled in size only by its closest relative, the polar bear (Ursus maritimus), which is much less variable in size and slightly bigger on average. The brown bear’s range includes parts of Russia, Central Asia, China, Canada, the United States, Hokkaido, Scandinavia, the Balkans, the Picos de Europa and the Carpathian region, especially Romania, Bulgaria, Anatolia and the Caucasus. The brown bear is recognized as a national and state animal in several European countries.While the brown bear’s range has shrunk and it has faced local extinctions, it remains listed as a least concern species by the International Union for Conservation of Nature (IUCN) with a total population of approximately 200,000. As of 2012, this and the American black bear are the only bear species not classified as threatened by the IUCN. Populations that were hunted to extinction in the 19th and 20th centuries are the Atlas bear of North Africa and the Californian, Ungavan and Mexican populations of the grizzly bear of North America. Many of the populations in the southern parts of Eurasia are highly endangered as well. One of the smaller-bodied forms, the Himalayan brown bear, is critically endangered, occupying only 2% of its former range and threatened by uncontrolled poaching for its body parts. The Marsican brown bear of central Italy is one of several currently isolated populations of the Eurasian brown bear, and believed to have a population of just 50 to 60 bears.
Animals of the same family as a Brown bear
We found other animals of the Ursidae family:
- Polar bear bringing 373.35 kilos (823.09 lbs) to the scale
- Asian black bear bringing 99.81 kilos (220.04 lbs) to the scale
- Red panda bringing 5.17 kilos (11.4 lbs) to the scale
- Sun bear bringing 57.04 kilos (125.75 lbs) to the scale
- Giant panda bringing 118 kilos (260.15 lbs) to the scale
- Sloth bear bringing 99.45 kilos (219.25 lbs) to the scale
- Spectacled bear bringing 123.09 kilos (271.37 lbs) to the scale
- American black bear bringing 110.75 kilos (244.16 lbs) to the scale
Animals with the same weight as a Brown bear
As a comparison, here are some other animals that weight as much as the Ursus arctos:
- East African oryx with a weight of 200.58 kilos (442.2 lbs)
- Anoa with a weight of 180.86 kilos (398.73 lbs)
- Dwarf sperm whale with a weight of 183.07 kilos (403.6 lbs)
- Crabeater seal with a weight of 225 kilos (496.04 lbs)
- Melon-headed whale with a weight of 206 kilos (454.15 lbs)
- South American tapir with a weight of 167.75 kilos (369.83 lbs)
- White-beaked dolphin with a weight of 186.82 kilos (411.87 lbs)
- Greater kudu with a weight of 205.53 kilos (453.12 lbs)
- Sambar deer with a weight of 176 kilos (388.01 lbs)
- Barasingha with a weight of 171.22 kilos (377.48 lbs)
Animals with the same size as a Brown bear
Not that size really matters, but it makes things comparable. So here are a couple of animals that are as big as Brown bear:
- Brown hyena with a size of 1.2 meter (4′ 0″)
- Baikal seal with a size of 1.28 meter (4′ 3″)
- Lesser kudu with a size of 1.68 meter (5′ 6″)
- Mule deer with a size of 1.52 meter (5′ 0″)
- Javan rusa with a size of 1.63 meter (5′ 5″)
- Common warthog with a size of 1.36 meter (4′ 6″)
- Western gorilla with a size of 1.6 meter (5′ 3″)
- Pronghorn with a size of 1.31 meter (4′ 4″)
- Caspian seal with a size of 1.41 meter (4′ 8″)
- Sika deer with a size of 1.2 meter (4′ 0″)
Animals with the same litter size as a Brown bear
Here is a list of animals that have the same number of babies per litter (2) as a Brown bear:
- Aardwolf
- African yellow bat
- Desert bandicoot
- Short-tailed gymnure
- Horsfield’s treeshrew
- Cinereus ringtail possum
- Lichtenstein’s jerboa
- African marsh rat
- Southern African spiny mouse
- True’s vole
Animals with the same life expectancy as a Brown bear
Completely different animals, but becoming as old as a Brown bear:
- Melon-headed whale with an average maximal age of 47 years
- Harp seal with an average maximal age of 42 years
- Common minke whale with an average maximal age of 50 years
- Long-finned pilot whale with an average maximal age of 45 years
- Javan rhinoceros with an average maximal age of 40 years
- Black capuchin with an average maximal age of 44 years
- Ringed seal with an average maximal age of 46 years
- Wedge-capped capuchin with an average maximal age of 41 years
- White rhinoceros with an average maximal age of 50 years
- Chimpanzee with an average maximal age of 60 years