🦍
Western gorilla
Gorilla gorilla
Primates · Critically endangered
vs
🦁
Lion
Panthera leo
Carnivores · Vulnerable
3 clips name both of them
5.5 million views between them.
Lion outweighs Western gorilla 1.2× — 149 kg against 126 kg. Both figures are averages across males and females.
Tale of the tape
Body mass
126 kg
🦍 Western gorilla · COMBINE
149 kg
🦁 Lion · COMBINE
Shoulder height
no figure yet
🦍 Western gorilla
1.15 m
🦁 Lion
Body length
1.67 m
🦍 Western gorilla · COMBINE
2.17 m
🦁 Lion · COMBINE
Top speed
31 km/h
🦍 Western gorilla
55 km/h
🦁 Lion
Bite force
1,723 N
🦍 Western gorilla
1,768 N
🦁 Lion
Maximum lifespan
55 yr
🦍 Western gorilla · COMBINE
30 yr
🦁 Lion · 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.