How big does a Western gorilla get? Here is an overview over the average adult age:
A grown Western gorilla (Gorilla gorilla) reaches an average size of 1.6 meter (5′ 3″).
When born, they have an average size of 0 cm (0′ 0″). During their lifetime of about 54 years, they grow from 2.1 kg (4.63 lbs) to 113.29 kg (249.77 lbs). A Western gorilla has 1 babies at once. The Western gorilla (genus: Gorilla) is a member of the family Hominidae.
As a reference: Humans reach an average body size of 1.65m (5′ 5″) while carrying 62 kg (137 lbs). A human woman is pregnant for 280 days (40 weeks) and on average become 75 years old.
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:
- Bonobo with a size of 75.3 cm (2′ 6″)
- Bornean orangutan with a size of 89 cm (3′ 0″)
- Sumatran orangutan bringing 39.7 kilos (87.52 lbs) to the scale
- Chimpanzee with a size of 79.6 cm (2′ 8″)
- Eastern gorilla bringing 149.33 kilos (329.22 lbs) to the scale
- Homo sapiens with 1 babies per litter
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:
- Bawean deer with a size of 1.38 meter (4′ 7″)
- Harp seal with a size of 1.73 meter (5′ 9″)
- Impala with a size of 1.42 meter (4′ 8″)
- Barbary sheep with a size of 1.45 meter (4′ 10″)
- Siberian roe deer with a size of 1.32 meter (4′ 4″)
- Cheetah with a size of 1.48 meter (4′ 11″)
- Pygmy hippopotamus with a size of 1.6 meter (5′ 3″)
- Grant’s gazelle with a size of 1.53 meter (5′ 1″)
- Wild boar with a size of 1.35 meter (4′ 6″)
- Bighorn sheep with a size of 1.57 meter (5′ 2″)
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:
- Pemba flying fox
- Narrow-striped mongoose
- Red-tailed sportive lemur
- Stein’s cuscus
- Raffray’s bandicoot
- Thomson’s gazelle
- Eastern hare-wallaby
- Eastern long-fingered bat
- Agile wallaby
- Mountain goat
Animals with the same life expectancy as a Western gorilla
Completely different animals, but becoming as old as a Western gorilla:
- Tufted capuchin with an average maximal age of 45.08 years
- Asinus with an average maximal age of 47 years
- Bonobo with an average maximal age of 48 years
- Melon-headed whale with an average maximal age of 47 years
- Yellow baboon with an average maximal age of 45 years
- Chacma baboon with an average maximal age of 45 years
- Short-beaked echidna with an average maximal age of 50 years
- Black crested gibbon with an average maximal age of 44.08 years
- Ringed seal with an average maximal age of 46 years
- Common minke whale with an average maximal age of 50 years
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:
- Siberian ibex with a weight of 130 kilos (286.6 lbs)
- Argali with a weight of 113.67 kilos (250.6 lbs)
- American black bear with a weight of 110.75 kilos (244.16 lbs)
- Common tsessebe with a weight of 133.5 kilos (294.32 lbs)
- Dusky dolphin with a weight of 127.25 kilos (280.54 lbs)
- Naemorhedus sumatraensis with a weight of 110 kilos (242.51 lbs)
- Eld’s deer with a weight of 94.7 kilos (208.78 lbs)
- Antarctic fur seal with a weight of 96.6 kilos (212.97 lbs)
- Llama with a weight of 107.66 kilos (237.35 lbs)
- Juan Fernández fur seal with a weight of 95 kilos (209.44 lbs)