🦍
Western gorilla
Gorilla gorilla
Primates · Critically endangered
vs
🦧
Bornean orangutan
Pongo pygmaeus
Primates · Critically endangered
4 clips name both of them
8.6 million views between them.
Western gorilla outweighs Bornean orangutan 2.1× — 126 kg against 58.9 kg.
Tale of the tape
Body mass
126 kg
🦍 Western gorilla · COMBINE
59 kg
🦧 Bornean orangutan · COMBINE
Body length
1.67 m
🦍 Western gorilla · COMBINE
1.2 m
🦧 Bornean orangutan · COMBINE
Top speed
31 km/h
🦍 Western gorilla
no figure yet
🦧 Bornean orangutan
Bite force
1,723 N
🦍 Western gorilla
no figure yet
🦧 Bornean orangutan
Maximum lifespan
55 yr
🦍 Western gorilla · COMBINE
60 yr
🦧 Bornean orangutan · COMBINE
Bars are sized against the larger of the two figures. Bite force figures come from individual studies and vary a lot between sources.
镜头下的动物
站内动物的实拍影像——捕猎、打斗，还有各自过日子的样子。
Shared ancestry
The closest group they share is Simiiformes (infraorder), home to 542 species.
We know what their shared ancestor was, but not when it lived — no dated family tree spans both of them yet.