🐒
Chimpanzee
Pan troglodytes
Primates · Endangered
vs
🐒
Eastern gorilla
Gorilla beringei
Primates · Critically endangered
One clip names both of them
21,808 views between them.
Eastern gorilla outweighs Chimpanzee 3.1× — 140 kg against 45 kg.
To scale
Grid at 50 cm
50 cm
1 m
1.5 m
2 m
Silhouettes: PhyloPic — T. Michael Keesey (vectorization) and Tony Hisgett (photography) (CC BY); others CC0.
Chimpanzee
1.35 m
full standing height · measured standing
Human
1.70 m
full standing height
for scale
Eastern gorilla
1.70 m
full standing height
Tale of the tape
Body mass
45 kg
🐒 Chimpanzee · COMBINE
140 kg
🐒 Eastern gorilla · COMBINE
Body length
0.87 m
🐒 Chimpanzee · COMBINE
1.67 m
🐒 Eastern gorilla · COMBINE
Bite force
1,511 N
🐒 Chimpanzee
no figure yet
🐒 Eastern gorilla
Maximum lifespan
74 yr
🐒 Chimpanzee · COMBINE
55 yr
🐒 Eastern 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.
Les animaux pris sur le vif
De vraies images des animaux de ce site — à la chasse, au combat, ou vaquant simplement à leurs occupations.
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.