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SpeciesPrimatesHominidae
Primates

🐒Eastern gorilla

Gorilla beringei Matschie, 1903

동부고릴라(Gorilla beringei)는 고릴라속에 속하는 종으로, 영장류 중에서 몸집이 가장 크다. 동부고릴라는 여러 아종으로 나뉘는데, 동부저지대고릴라는 6,800 마리, 산악고릴라는 1,000 마리밖에 되지 않는다. 산악고릴라의 절반을 차지하는 브윈디고릴라 군집을 별도의 아종으로 보기도 한다.

Text: Wikipedia, CC BY-SA 4.0.

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Conservation status
CRCritically endangered

IUCN Red List assessment, 2019.

Population trendDecreasing
Key measurements
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
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Facts and figures

Everything we know about the Eastern gorilla

Typical adult figures. Where a value is an estimate rather than a measurement, it says so.

Body mass
140 kg
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Source: COMBINE · v1 (Soria et al. 2021) · CC BY 4.0

Body length
1.67 m
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Source: COMBINE · v1 (Soria et al. 2021) · CC BY 4.0

Standing height
1.7 m1.61–1.71 m · typical range
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Standing height, n=5, sexes combined.

Source: Canington 2018, Mammalian Species 50(967) · see citation

Brain mass
480 g
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Source: COMBINE · v1 (Soria et al. 2021) · CC BY 4.0

Maximum lifespan
55 years
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Source: COMBINE · v1 (Soria et al. 2021) · CC BY 4.0

Generation length
20 years
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Source: COMBINE · v1 (Soria et al. 2021) · CC BY 4.0

Age at maturity
12 years
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Source: COMBINE · v1 (Soria et al. 2021) · CC BY 4.0

Gestation
257 days
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Source: COMBINE · v1 (Soria et al. 2021) · CC BY 4.0

Litter size
1
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Source: COMBINE · v1 (Soria et al. 2021) · CC BY 4.0

Trophic level
Herbivore
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Source: COMBINE · v1 (Soria et al. 2021) · CC BY 4.0

Activity cycle
Diurnal
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Source: COMBINE · v1 (Soria et al. 2021) · CC BY 4.0

Population density
0.79 per km²
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Source: COMBINE · v1 (Soria et al. 2021) · CC BY 4.0

Volume l
140 Laverage
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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.

Where it sits

Family tree

  1. kingdomAnimalia
  2. ›phylumChordata
  3. ›classMammalia
  4. ›orderPrimates
  5. ›familyHominidae
  6. ›genusGorilla
  7. ›speciesGorilla beringei
Full lineage
  1. classMammals · Mammalia
  2. infraorderSimiiformes
  3. subfamilyHomininae
  4. genusGorilla
All 14 branches ↓
  1. kingdomMetazoa
  2. phylumChordata
  3. subphylumCraniata
  4. subphylumVertebrata
  5. superclassGnathostomata
  6. superclassSarcopterygii
  7. superclassTetrapoda
  8. classMammals · Mammalia
  9. subclassTheria
  10. superorderEuarchontoglires
  11. suborderHaplorrhini
  12. infraorderSimiiformes
  13. subfamilyHomininae
  14. genusGorilla
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What it eats
leaves, roots and other plants90%
fruit10%
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Östlicher Gorilla (de), Gorilla beringei (es), gorille de l'est (fr), Goryl górski (pl), 東部大猩猩 (zh), goril·la oriental (ca) … and 22 more languages

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