🐒Eastern gorilla
Den østlige gorilla (Gorilla beringei) er en art i slægten Gorilla og den største nulevende primat. I øjeblikket bliver arten opdelt i to underarter, hvor den østlige lavlandsgorilla (G. b. graueri) er den mest talrige med omkring 5.000 individer, mens bjerggorillaen (G. b. beringei) kun har omkring 880 individer.
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IUCN Red List assessment, 2019.
- Body mass
- 140 kg
- Body length
- 1.67 m
- Shoulder height
- not recorded
- Top speed
- not recorded
- Bite force
- not recorded
- Maximum lifespan
- 55 years
Everything we know about the Eastern gorilla
Typical adult figures. Where a value is an estimate rather than a measurement, it says so.
Body mass140 kgCOMBINEDetails ↓Hide ↑
Source: COMBINE · v1 (Soria et al. 2021) · CC BY 4.0
Body length1.67 mCOMBINEDetails ↓Hide ↑
Source: COMBINE · v1 (Soria et al. 2021) · CC BY 4.0
Standing height1.7 m1.61–1.71 m · typical rangeDetails ↓Hide ↑
Standing height, n=5, sexes combined.
Source: Canington 2018, Mammalian Species 50(967) · see citation
Brain mass480 gCOMBINEDetails ↓Hide ↑
Source: COMBINE · v1 (Soria et al. 2021) · CC BY 4.0
Maximum lifespan55 yearsCOMBINEDetails ↓Hide ↑
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Generation length20 yearsCOMBINEDetails ↓Hide ↑
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Age at maturity12 yearsCOMBINEDetails ↓Hide ↑
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Gestation257 daysCOMBINEDetails ↓Hide ↑
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Litter size1COMBINEDetails ↓Hide ↑
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Trophic levelHerbivoreCOMBINEDetails ↓Hide ↑
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Activity cycleDiurnalCOMBINEDetails ↓Hide ↑
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Population density0.79 per km²COMBINEDetails ↓Hide ↑
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Volume l140 LaverageDetails ↓Hide ↑
Body mass at ~1.0 kg/L, the density of vertebrate tissue.
average = a mean across sexes or species in a group.
Not recorded for Eastern gorilla yet: shoulder height, top speed, bite force.
Family tree
- kingdomAnimalia
- ›phylumChordata
- ›classMammalia
- ›orderPrimates
- ›familyHominidae
- ›genusGorilla
- ›speciesGorilla beringei
- classMammals · Mammalia
- infraorderSimiiformes
- subfamilyHomininae
- genusGorilla
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- kingdomMetazoa
- phylumChordata
- subphylumCraniata
- subphylumVertebrata
- superclassGnathostomata
- superclassSarcopterygii
- superclassTetrapoda
- classMammals · Mammalia
- subclassTheria
- superorderEuarchontoglires
- suborderHaplorrhini
- infraorderSimiiformes
- subfamilyHomininae
- genusGorilla
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