🦍
Western gorilla
Gorilla gorilla
Primates · Critically endangered
vs
🧍
Human
Homo sapiens
Primates · Least concern
11 clips name both of them
246,899 views between them.
Western gorilla outweighs Human 2.0× — 126 kg against 62 kg.
Tale of the tape
Body mass
126 kg
🦍 Western gorilla · COMBINE
62 kg
🧍 Human · AnAge
Body length
1.67 m
🦍 Western gorilla · COMBINE
no figure yet
🧍 Human
Top speed
31 km/h
🦍 Western gorilla
38 km/h
🧍 Human
Bite force
1,723 N
🦍 Western gorilla
843 N
🧍 Human
Maximum lifespan
55 yr
🦍 Western gorilla · COMBINE
123 yr
🧍 Human · AnAge
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.