🦍
Western gorilla
Gorilla gorilla
Primates · Critically endangered
vs
🦁
Lion
Panthera leo
Carnivores · Vulnerable
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Lion outweighs Western gorilla 1.2× — 149 kg against 126 kg. Both figures are averages across males and females.
Tale of the tape
Body mass
126 kg
🦍 Western gorilla · COMBINE
149 kg
🦁 Lion · COMBINE
Shoulder height
no figure yet
🦍 Western gorilla
1.15 m
🦁 Lion
Body length
1.67 m
🦍 Western gorilla · COMBINE
2.17 m
🦁 Lion · COMBINE
Top speed
31 km/h
🦍 Western gorilla
55 km/h
🦁 Lion
Bite force
1,723 N
🦍 Western gorilla
1,768 N
🦁 Lion
Maximum lifespan
55 yr
🦍 Western gorilla · COMBINE
30 yr
🦁 Lion · COMBINE
Bars are sized against the larger of the two figures. Bite force figures come from individual studies and vary a lot between sources.
حیوانات در قاب دوربین
فیلم واقعی از حیوانات این سایت — در حال شکار، درگیری و گذران زندگی روزمره.
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.