🐒
Eastern gorilla
Gorilla beringei
Primates · Critically endangered
vs
🧍
Human
Homo sapiens
Primates · Least concern
One clip names both of them
1,553 views between them.
Eastern gorilla outweighs Human 2.3× — 140 kg against 62 kg.
To scale
Grid at 50 cm
50 cm
1 m
1.5 m
2 m
Silhouettes: PhyloPic (CC0).
Eastern gorilla
1.70 m
full standing height
Human
1.70 m
full standing height
Tale of the tape
Body mass
140 kg
🐒 Eastern gorilla · COMBINE
62 kg
🧍 Human · AnAge
Body length
1.67 m
🐒 Eastern gorilla · COMBINE
no figure yet
🧍 Human
Top speed
no figure yet
🐒 Eastern gorilla
38 km/h
🧍 Human
Bite force
no figure yet
🐒 Eastern gorilla
843 N
🧍 Human
Maximum lifespan
55 yr
🐒 Eastern gorilla · COMBINE
123 yr
🧍 Human · AnAge
Bars are sized against the larger of the two figures. Bite force figures come from individual studies and vary a lot between sources.
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Shared ancestry
The closest group they share is Homininae (subfamily), home to 24 species.
We know what their shared ancestor was, but not when it lived — no dated family tree spans both of them yet.