🐻❄️ Polar bear vs Walrus 🦭
The walrus is about twice as long as the polar bear. The walrus weighs about 4 times as much as the polar bear.
| Row | 🐻❄️ Polar bear | 🦭 Walrus |
|---|---|---|
| Top speed We don't have a checked number for the polar bear yet. | no checked number yet | 22 mph35 km/h1 |
| Weight The walrus weighs about 4 times as much as the polar bear. | 399 to 1,450 lb181 to 658 kg2 | 1.9 tons1.7 tonnes3 |
| Lives We don't have a checked number for the walrus yet. | 25 years25 years2 | no checked number yet |
| Eats Both eat meat. | mostly seals, caught at holes in the sea ice | clams, snails, worms and other animals of the sea floor |
| Lives in They can live in the same kind of place. | the Arctic, on the sea ice around the North Pole | Arctic seas and shores around Alaska, Canada, Greenland and Russia |
Which one? Polar bear or walrus
🏁 Who would win the race?
We don't have a checked top speed for the polar bear 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, Bering Land Bridge National Preserve, checked 30 October 2026.
- National Park Service, checked 30 October 2026.
- U.S. Fish and Wildlife Service, checked 30 October 2026.