🦍
Western gorilla
Gorilla gorilla
Primates · Critically endangered
vs
🦧
Bornean orangutan
Pongo pygmaeus
Primates · Critically endangered
4 clips name both of them
8.6 million views between them.
Western gorilla outweighs Bornean orangutan 2.1× — 126 kg against 58.9 kg.
Tale of the tape
Body mass
126 kg
🦍 Western gorilla · COMBINE
59 kg
🦧 Bornean orangutan · COMBINE
Body length
1.67 m
🦍 Western gorilla · COMBINE
1.2 m
🦧 Bornean orangutan · COMBINE
Top speed
31 km/h
🦍 Western gorilla
no figure yet
🦧 Bornean orangutan
Bite force
1,723 N
🦍 Western gorilla
no figure yet
🦧 Bornean orangutan
Maximum lifespan
55 yr
🦍 Western gorilla · COMBINE
60 yr
🦧 Bornean orangutan · COMBINE
Bars are sized against the larger of the two figures. Bite force figures come from individual studies and vary a lot between sources.
카메라에 담긴 동물들
이 사이트에 실린 동물들의 실제 영상 — 사냥하고, 싸우고, 그냥 하루를 살아가는 모습까지 담았어요.
Shared ancestry
The closest group they share is Simiiformes (infraorder), home to 542 species.
We know what their shared ancestor was, but not when it lived — no dated family tree spans both of them yet.