🦍Western gorilla
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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IUCN Red List assessment, 2018.
- 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
Everything we know about the Western gorilla
Typical adult figures. Where a value is an estimate rather than a measurement, it says so.
Body mass126 kgCOMBINEOther figures ↓Hide ↑
Source: COMBINE · v1 (Soria et al. 2021) · CC BY 4.0
Figures vary
- 140 kgAnAgeAnAge build 15, 2023-07-03 (HAGR)data quality: acceptable
Body length1.67 mCOMBINEDetails ↓Hide ↑
Source: COMBINE · v1 (Soria et al. 2021) · CC BY 4.0
Top speed31 km/hDetails ↓Hide ↑
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 force1,723 NDetails ↓Hide ↑
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 mass450 gCOMBINEDetails ↓Hide ↑
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Maximum lifespan55 yearsCOMBINEOther figures ↓Hide ↑
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- 60 yearsAnAgeAnAge build 15, 2023-07-03 (HAGR)data quality: acceptable
Generation length22 yearsCOMBINEDetails ↓Hide ↑
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Age at maturity9.2 yearsCOMBINEDetails ↓Hide ↑
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Gestation257 daysCOMBINEOther figures ↓Hide ↑
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- 256 daysAnAgeAnAge build 15, 2023-07-03 (HAGR)data quality: acceptable
Litter size1COMBINEOther figures ↓Hide ↑
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- 1AnAgeAnAge build 15, 2023-07-03 (HAGR)data quality: acceptable
Trophic levelHerbivoreCOMBINEDetails ↓Hide ↑
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Activity cycleDiurnalCOMBINEDetails ↓Hide ↑
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Home range4.03 km²COMBINEDetails ↓Hide ↑
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Population density1.21 per km²COMBINEDetails ↓Hide ↑
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Volume l126 LaverageDetails ↓Hide ↑
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.
Family tree
- kingdomAnimalia
- ›phylumChordata
- ›classMammalia
- ›orderPrimates
- ›familyHominidae
- ›genusGorilla
- ›speciesGorilla gorilla
- classMammals · Mammalia
- infraorderSimiiformes
- subfamilyHomininae
- genusGorilla
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- kingdomMetazoa
- phylumChordata
- subphylumCraniata
- subphylumVertebrata
- superclassGnathostomata
- superclassSarcopterygii
- superclassTetrapoda
- classMammals · Mammalia
- subclassTheria
- superorderEuarchontoglires
- suborderHaplorrhini
- infraorderSimiiformes
- subfamilyHomininae
- genusGorilla
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