🐒Eastern gorilla
The eastern gorilla is a critically endangered species of the genus Gorilla and the largest living primate. At present, the species is subdivided into two subspecies. There are 6,800 eastern lowland gorillas or Grauer's gorillas and 1,000 mountain gorillas. Illegal hunting threatens the species.
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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 ↑
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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 ↑
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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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