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SpeciesPrimatesHominidae
Primates

🐒Eastern gorilla

Gorilla beringei Matschie, 1903

東部大猩猩(学名:Gorilla beringei)是一種大猩猩,且是靈長目中體型最大的。目前東部大猩猩分為兩個亞種:東部低地大猩猩(G. b. graueri)是數目最多的,約有16000頭;山地大猩猩(G. b. beringei)則只有約700頭。另外亦有指在布溫迪森林的山地大猩猩族群是屬於第三個亞種,數量約佔山地大猩猩的一半。

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Measurements
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Conservation status
CRCritically endangered

IUCN Red List assessment, 2019.

Population trendDecreasing
Key measurements
Body mass
140 kg
Body length
1.67 m
Shoulder height
not recorded
Top speed
not recorded
Bite force
not recorded
Maximum lifespan
55 years
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Facts and figures

Everything we know about the Eastern gorilla

Typical adult figures. Where a value is an estimate rather than a measurement, it says so.

Body mass
140 kg
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Source: COMBINE · v1 (Soria et al. 2021) · CC BY 4.0

Body length
1.67 m
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Source: COMBINE · v1 (Soria et al. 2021) · CC BY 4.0

Standing height
1.7 m1.61–1.71 m · typical range
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Standing height, n=5, sexes combined.

Source: Canington 2018, Mammalian Species 50(967) · see citation

Brain mass
480 g
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Source: COMBINE · v1 (Soria et al. 2021) · CC BY 4.0

Maximum lifespan
55 years
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Source: COMBINE · v1 (Soria et al. 2021) · CC BY 4.0

Generation length
20 years
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Source: COMBINE · v1 (Soria et al. 2021) · CC BY 4.0

Age at maturity
12 years
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Source: COMBINE · v1 (Soria et al. 2021) · CC BY 4.0

Gestation
257 days
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Source: COMBINE · v1 (Soria et al. 2021) · CC BY 4.0

Litter size
1
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Trophic level
Herbivore
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Activity cycle
Diurnal
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Population density
0.79 per km²
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Source: COMBINE · v1 (Soria et al. 2021) · CC BY 4.0

Volume l
140 Laverage
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Body mass at ~1.0 kg/L, the density of vertebrate tissue.

average = a mean across sexes or species in a group.

Not recorded for Eastern gorilla yet: shoulder height, top speed, bite force.

Where it sits

Family tree

  1. kingdomAnimalia
  2. ›phylumChordata
  3. ›classMammalia
  4. ›orderPrimates
  5. ›familyHominidae
  6. ›genusGorilla
  7. ›speciesGorilla beringei
Full lineage
  1. classMammals · Mammalia
  2. infraorderSimiiformes
  3. subfamilyHomininae
  4. genusGorilla
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  1. kingdomMetazoa
  2. phylumChordata
  3. subphylumCraniata
  4. subphylumVertebrata
  5. superclassGnathostomata
  6. superclassSarcopterygii
  7. superclassTetrapoda
  8. classMammals · Mammalia
  9. subclassTheria
  10. superorderEuarchontoglires
  11. suborderHaplorrhini
  12. infraorderSimiiformes
  13. subfamilyHomininae
  14. genusGorilla
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What it eats
leaves, roots and other plants90%
fruit10%
In other languages
Östlicher Gorilla (de), Gorilla beringei (es), gorille de l'est (fr), Goryl górski (pl), 東部大猩猩 (zh), goril·la oriental (ca) … and 22 more languages

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