🐒
Chimpanzee
Pan troglodytes
Primates · Endangered
vs
🦍
Western gorilla
Gorilla gorilla
Primates · Critically endangered
4 clips name both of them
750,188 views between them.
Western gorilla outweighs Chimpanzee 2.8× — 126 kg against 45 kg.
Tale of the tape
Body mass
45 kg
🐒 Chimpanzee · COMBINE
126 kg
🦍 Western gorilla · COMBINE
Body length
0.87 m
🐒 Chimpanzee · COMBINE
1.67 m
🦍 Western gorilla · COMBINE
Top speed
no figure yet
🐒 Chimpanzee
31 km/h
🦍 Western gorilla
Bite force
1,511 N
🐒 Chimpanzee
1,723 N
🦍 Western gorilla
Maximum lifespan
74 yr
🐒 Chimpanzee · COMBINE
55 yr
🦍 Western gorilla · COMBINE
Bars are sized against the larger of the two figures. Bite force figures come from individual studies and vary a lot between sources.
Animals caught on camera
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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.