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SpeciesPrimatesHominidae
Primates

🦍Western gorilla

Gorilla gorilla (Savage, 1847)

서부고릴라(학명: Gorilla gorilla)는 아프리카에 서식하는 유인원으로 고릴라속에 속하는 두 종 중의 하나이다. 수컷은 몸무게가 약 168kg에 달하는 크고 튼튼한 체격을 가지고 있으며, 아프리카 중서부 지역에 서식한다. 동부고릴라와는 지리적으로 고립되어 있다. 서부고릴라의 털 색깔은 동부고릴라보다 훨씬 밝다. 국제자연보호연맹의 IUCN 적색 목록은 서부고릴라를 절멸위급종으로 분류하고 있다. 서부고릴라는 동부고릴라 다음으로 현존하는 두 번째로 큰 영장류다. 서부고릴라는 크게 두 아종으로 나뉘는데, 서부저지대고릴라는 서아프리카 대부분 지역에 서식하고, 크로스강고릴라는 카메룬과 나이지리아 국경 지역의 북부 좁은 지역에만 분포한다. 두 아종 모두 절멸위급종으로 분류되어 있다.

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Also called
Gorilla gorilla, Lowland Gorilla
Conservation status
CRCritically endangered

IUCN Red List assessment, 2018.

Population trendDecreasing
Key measurements
Body mass
126 kg
Body length
1.67 m
Shoulder height
not recorded
Top speed
31 km/h
Bite force
1,723 N
Maximum lifespan
55 years
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Facts and figures

Everything we know about the Western gorilla

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

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

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  • 140 kgAnAgeAnAge build 15, 2023-07-03 (HAGR)data quality: acceptable
Body length
1.67 m
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Source: COMBINE · v1 (Soria et al. 2021) · CC BY 4.0

Top speed
31 km/h
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Sprint over a short distance, not a sustained pace. Quadrupedal knuckle-walking run; the only peer-reviewed value available.

Source: Iriarte-Diaz 2002, J Exp Biol 205:2897; compiled in Hirt et al. 2017, Nat Ecol Evol 1:1116, Supplementary Data · see citation

Bite force
1,723 N
Details ↓

MODELLED by 3D finite-element analysis, bite at the second molar; adult female specimen, estimated 127.5 kg. No bite force has ever been measured in any great ape. An independent enamel-chip fracture method gives 1693-2865 N (Constantino et al. 2010, Biol Lett 6:826).

Source: Wroe, Ferrara, McHenry, Curnoe & Chamoli 2010, Proc R Soc B 277:3579 · see citation

Brain mass
450 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

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  • 60 yearsAnAgeAnAge build 15, 2023-07-03 (HAGR)data quality: acceptable
Generation length
22 years
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Source: COMBINE · v1 (Soria et al. 2021) · CC BY 4.0

Age at maturity
9.2 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

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  • 256 daysAnAgeAnAge build 15, 2023-07-03 (HAGR)data quality: acceptable
Litter size
1
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Source: COMBINE · v1 (Soria et al. 2021) · CC BY 4.0

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  • 1AnAgeAnAge build 15, 2023-07-03 (HAGR)data quality: acceptable
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

Home range
4.03 km²
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Source: COMBINE · v1 (Soria et al. 2021) · CC BY 4.0

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

Volume l
126 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 Western gorilla yet: shoulder height.

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Family tree

  1. kingdomAnimalia
  2. ›phylumChordata
  3. ›classMammalia
  4. ›orderPrimates
  5. ›familyHominidae
  6. ›genusGorilla
  7. ›speciesGorilla gorilla
Full lineage
  1. classMammals · Mammalia
  2. infraorderSimiiformes
  3. subfamilyHomininae
  4. genusGorilla
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  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%
In other languages
Westlicher Gorilla (de), Gorilla gorilla (es), Gorilla gorilla (fr), gorila-do-ocidente (pt), Goryl nizinny (pl), 서부고릴라 (ko) … and 25 more languages

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