🐻❄️ Polar bear vs Tiger 🐅
The tiger is about one and a half times as long as the polar bear. The polar bear weighs about 3 times as much as the tiger.
| Row | 🐻❄️ Polar bear | 🐅 Tiger |
|---|---|---|
| Top speed Neither has a checked number yet. | no checked number yet | no checked number yet |
| Weight The polar bear weighs about 3 times as much as the tiger. | 399 to 1,450 lb181 to 658 kg1 | 249 to 375 lb113 to 170 kg2 |
| Lives The polar bear usually lives about one and a half times as long as the tiger. | 25 years25 years1 | 15 years15 years2 |
| Eats Both eat meat. | mostly seals, caught at holes in the sea ice | deer and wild pigs |
| Lives in They live in different kinds of places, so they would hardly ever meet. | the Arctic, on the sea ice around the North Pole | forests and grasslands of Asia, from India to the far east of Russia |
Which one? Polar bear or tiger
🏁 Who would win the race?
We don't have a checked top speed for the polar bear or 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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The link carries only the two animals’ names: peabody.kids/animals/compare/polar-bear-vs-tiger
Where these numbers come from
- National Park Service, checked 30 October 2026.
- US Fish and Wildlife Service, Federal Register 2010 (tiger delisting petition 90-day finding), checked 30 October 2026.