🐼
Giant panda
Ailuropoda melanoleuca
Carnivores · Vulnerable
vs
🦍
Western gorilla
Gorilla gorilla
Primates · Critically endangered
One clip names both of them
4,546 views between them.
Level on mass: Giant panda 118 kg, Western gorilla 126 kg.
Tale of the tape
Body mass
118 kg
🐼 Giant panda · COMBINE
126 kg
🦍 Western gorilla · COMBINE
Shoulder height
0.68 m
🐼 Giant panda
no figure yet
🦍 Western gorilla
Body length
1.42 m
🐼 Giant panda · COMBINE
1.67 m
🦍 Western gorilla · COMBINE
Top speed
no figure yet
🐼 Giant panda
31 km/h
🦍 Western gorilla
Bite force
no figure yet
🐼 Giant panda
1,723 N
🦍 Western gorilla
Maximum lifespan
37 yr
🐼 Giant panda · COMBINE
55 yr
🦍 Western gorilla · COMBINE
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 Theria (subclass), home to 9,319 species.
We know what their shared ancestor was, but not when it lived — no dated family tree spans both of them yet.