🐼
Giant panda
Ailuropoda melanoleuca
Carnivores · Vulnerable
vs
🦍
Western gorilla
Gorilla gorilla
Primates · Critically endangered
One clip names both of them
4,546 views between them.
Level on mass: Giant panda 118 kg, Western gorilla 126 kg.
Tale of the tape
Body mass
118 kg
🐼 Giant panda · COMBINE
126 kg
🦍 Western gorilla · COMBINE
Shoulder height
0.68 m
🐼 Giant panda
no figure yet
🦍 Western gorilla
Body length
1.42 m
🐼 Giant panda · COMBINE
1.67 m
🦍 Western gorilla · COMBINE
Top speed
no figure yet
🐼 Giant panda
31 km/h
🦍 Western gorilla
Bite force
no figure yet
🐼 Giant panda
1,723 N
🦍 Western gorilla
Maximum lifespan
37 yr
🐼 Giant panda · 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 Theria (subclass), home to 9,319 species.
We know what their shared ancestor was, but not when it lived — no dated family tree spans both of them yet.