🐻 Grizzly bear vs Tiger 🐅
The tiger is about one and a half times as long as the grizzly bear. The grizzly bear weighs about one and a half times as much as the tiger.
| Row | 🐻 Grizzly bear | 🐅 Tiger |
|---|---|---|
| Top speed We don't have a checked number for the tiger yet. | 35 mph56 km/h1 | no checked number yet |
| Weight The grizzly bear weighs about one and a half times as much as the tiger. | 243 to 661 lb110 to 300 kg2 | 249 to 375 lb113 to 170 kg3 |
| Lives The grizzly bear usually lives about one and a half times as long as the tiger. | 25 years25 years2 | 15 years15 years3 |
| Eats The grizzly bear eats plants and animals; the tiger eats meat. | roots, berries, grasses, nuts, fish, insects and meat | deer and wild pigs |
| Lives in They can live in the same kind of place. | the mountains and forests of western North America, from Alaska to Wyoming | forests and grasslands of Asia, from India to the far east of Russia |
Which one? Grizzly bear or tiger
🏁 Who would win the race?
We don't have a checked top speed for the tiger yet, so there is no race.
We only race. Real animals mostly avoid each other. A race is the only fair contest: who reaches the tree first, by top speed.
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Where these numbers come from
- National Park Service, Glacier, checked 30 October 2026.
- US Fish and Wildlife Service (grizzly bear species profile), checked 30 October 2026.
- US Fish and Wildlife Service, Federal Register 2010 (tiger delisting petition 90-day finding), checked 30 October 2026.
- National Park Service, Bears (brown bears), checked 30 October 2026.