🦍
Western gorilla
Gorilla gorilla
Primates · Critically endangered
vs
🐅
Tiger
Panthera tigris
Carnivores · Endangered
2 clips name both of them
1.1 million views between them.
Level on mass: Western gorilla 126 kg, Tiger 129 kg.
Tale of the tape
Body mass
126 kg
🦍 Western gorilla · COMBINE
129 kg
🐅 Tiger · COMBINE
Shoulder height
no figure yet
🦍 Western gorilla
0.91 m
🐅 Tiger
Body length
1.67 m
🦍 Western gorilla · COMBINE
2.31 m
🐅 Tiger · COMBINE
Top speed
31 km/h
🦍 Western gorilla
54 km/h
🐅 Tiger
Bite force
1,723 N
🦍 Western gorilla
1,525 N
🐅 Tiger
Maximum lifespan
55 yr
🦍 Western gorilla · COMBINE
26 yr
🐅 Tiger · 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.