🐒
Eastern gorilla
Gorilla beringei
Primates · Critically endangered
vs
🦍
Western gorilla
Gorilla gorilla
Primates · Critically endangered
One clip names both of them
4,327 views between them.
Level on mass: Eastern gorilla 140 kg, Western gorilla 126 kg.
Tale of the tape
Body mass
140 kg
🐒 Eastern gorilla · COMBINE
126 kg
🦍 Western gorilla · COMBINE
Body length
1.67 m
🐒 Eastern gorilla · COMBINE
1.67 m
🦍 Western gorilla · COMBINE
Top speed
no figure yet
🐒 Eastern gorilla
31 km/h
🦍 Western gorilla
Bite force
no figure yet
🐒 Eastern gorilla
1,723 N
🦍 Western gorilla
Maximum lifespan
55 yr
🐒 Eastern gorilla · 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
Real footage of the animals on this site — hunting, fighting, and getting on with it.
Shared ancestry
The closest group they share is Gorilla (genus), home to 5 species.
We know what their shared ancestor was, but not when it lived — no dated family tree spans both of them yet.