🦍
Western gorilla
Gorilla gorilla
Primates · Critically endangered
vs
🐆
Big cats
Pantherinae
Mammals
average across the group
3 clips name both of them
5.5 million views between them.
Western gorilla outweighs Big cats 1.4× — 126 kg against 92 kg.
Tale of the tape
Body mass
126 kg
🦍 Western gorilla · COMBINE
92 kg
🐆 Big cats · group average
Shoulder height
no figure yet
🦍 Western gorilla
0.82 m
🐆 Big cats · group average
Body length
1.67 m
🦍 Western gorilla · COMBINE
1.79 m
🐆 Big cats · group average
Top speed
31 km/h
🦍 Western gorilla
56 km/h
🐆 Big cats · group average
Bite force
1,723 N
🦍 Western gorilla
1,194 N
🐆 Big cats · group average
Maximum lifespan
55 yr
🦍 Western gorilla · COMBINE
27 yr
🐆 Big cats · group average
Bars are sized against the larger of the two figures. Bite force figures come from individual studies and vary a lot between sources.
Animales captados por la cámara
Imágenes reales de los animales de este sitio: cazando, peleando y haciendo su vida.
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.