🦍
Western gorilla
Gorilla gorilla
Primates · Critically endangered
vs
🦘
Red kangaroo
Macropus rufus
Marsupials · Least concern
One clip names both of them
16 million views between them.
Western gorilla outweighs Red kangaroo 3.5× — 126 kg against 35.7 kg.
Tale of the tape
Body mass
126 kg
🦍 Western gorilla · COMBINE
36 kg
🦘 Red kangaroo · COMBINE
Body length
1.67 m
🦍 Western gorilla · COMBINE
1.6 m
🦘 Red kangaroo · COMBINE
Top speed
31 km/h
🦍 Western gorilla
no figure yet
🦘 Red kangaroo
Bite force
1,723 N
🦍 Western gorilla
no figure yet
🦘 Red kangaroo
Maximum lifespan
55 yr
🦍 Western gorilla · COMBINE
30 yr
🦘 Red kangaroo · 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.