It is hard to guess what a Western gorilla weights. But we have the answer:
An adult Western gorilla (Gorilla gorilla) on average weights 113.29 kg (249.77 lbs).
The Western gorilla is from the family Hominidae (genus: Gorilla). It is usually born with about 2.1 kg (4.63 lbs). They can live for up to 54 years. When reaching adult age, they grow up to 1.6 meter (5′ 3″). Usually, Western gorillas have 1 babies per litter.
As a reference: An average human weights in at 62 kg (137 lbs) and reaches an average size of 1.65m (5′ 5″). Humans spend 280 days (40 weeks) in the womb of their mother and reach around 75 years of age.
The western gorilla (Gorilla gorilla) is a great ape—the type species as well as the most populous species of the genus Gorilla.
Animals of the same family as a Western gorilla
We found other animals of the Hominidae family:
- Eastern gorilla bringing 149.33 kilos (329.22 lbs) to the scale
- Homo sapiens bringing 58.62 kilos (129.23 lbs) to the scale
- Sumatran orangutan bringing 39.7 kilos (87.52 lbs) to the scale
- Bonobo bringing 35.15 kilos (77.49 lbs) to the scale
- Chimpanzee bringing 45.03 kilos (99.27 lbs) to the scale
- Bornean orangutan bringing 52.97 kilos (116.78 lbs) to the scale
Animals with the same weight as a Western gorilla
As a comparison, here are some other animals that weight as much as the Gorilla gorilla:
- Llama with a weight of 107.66 kilos (237.35 lbs)
- Eld’s deer with a weight of 95.47 kilos (210.48 lbs)
- Schomburgk’s deer with a weight of 106 kilos (233.69 lbs)
- Atlantic spotted dolphin with a weight of 110 kilos (242.51 lbs)
- Barbary sheep with a weight of 93.7 kilos (206.57 lbs)
- Harp seal with a weight of 132.25 kilos (291.56 lbs)
- Guanaco with a weight of 95.5 kilos (210.54 lbs)
- Southern right whale dolphin with a weight of 116 kilos (255.74 lbs)
- Naemorhedus sumatraensis with a weight of 110 kilos (242.51 lbs)
- Asian black bear with a weight of 99.81 kilos (220.04 lbs)
Animals with the same size as a Western gorilla
Not that size really matters, but it makes things comparable. So here are a couple of animals that are as big as Western gorilla:
- Eld’s deer with a size of 1.65 meter (5′ 5″)
- Llama with a size of 1.66 meter (5′ 6″)
- Siberian roe deer with a size of 1.32 meter (4′ 4″)
- Harp seal with a size of 1.73 meter (5′ 9″)
- Sheep with a size of 1.3 meter (4′ 4″)
- Soemmerring’s gazelle with a size of 1.36 meter (4′ 6″)
- Antarctic fur seal with a size of 1.57 meter (5′ 2″)
- Dall sheep with a size of 1.42 meter (4′ 8″)
- Juan Fernández fur seal with a size of 1.7 meter (5′ 7″)
- Arctocephalus forsteri with a size of 1.71 meter (5′ 8″)
Animals with the same litter size as a Western gorilla
Here is a list of animals that have the same number of babies per litter (1) as a Western gorilla:
- Rhinolophus simplex
- Nathusius’s pipistrelle
- Whiptail wallaby
- Natal long-fingered bat
- Lesser false vampire bat
- Gerenuk
- Smoky flying squirrel
- Frosted sac-winged bat
- Polar bear
- Guadalupe fur seal
Animals with the same life expectancy as a Western gorilla
Completely different animals, but becoming as old as a Western gorilla:
- Brown bear with an average maximal age of 50 years
- Bonobo with an average maximal age of 48 years
- Black crested gibbon with an average maximal age of 44.08 years
- Chimpanzee with an average maximal age of 60 years
- Hippopotamus with an average maximal age of 54.5 years
- Melon-headed whale with an average maximal age of 47 years
- Common bottlenose dolphin with an average maximal age of 46 years
- Mandrill with an average maximal age of 46.25 years
- Baikal seal with an average maximal age of 56 years
- Short-finned pilot whale with an average maximal age of 63 years