The Great Apes

[Shadow]

(01-28-2020, 03:55 AM)GuateGojira Wrote:

(01-21-2020, 12:30 PM)The Panther Wrote: o unless there's proof that these males are so full of gas to the point it inflates them this much, then there really is no denying the obvious size difference here, and we shouldn't discard potential weights beyond 250kg either. It makes a lot of sense for an old mountain gorilla to be built like this, after all, silverback mountain gorillas can live relatively sedentary lives for 20 to 30 years and only travel short distances when they eventually move. They also consume huge quantities of vegetation daily within that time, which should mean they would gain considerable amounts of weight by the time they reach their twilight years. So we just don't know to what extent extra gas adds to their size, but if it adds anything noticeable, then Shadow's version of it makes the most sense when you include obesity.

I am agree in the obesity issue with @Shadow, but even then a figure of 250 kg seems to much, now that I saw that comparative image of Guhonda and the man.

It will be good to know if is possible for a gorilla to be fat enoght to reach such sizes in the wild. We know in captivity, but in the wild?

In the picture of the dead gorilla that I put we can see the huge chest girth of the specimen which is typical for herbivore animals that fermet its food. I will try to found the documentary when this biologist mentioned that the gas amount in gorillas is so huge that they bellies can litterary go flat if they stop eating.

One good thing to notice, when talking about for instance Samson (USA) who was 296 kg in captivity. He was fed with hamburgers, bread and so on before his zookeeper understood that something was wrong and something had to be done. Back then many things were so differently, no wonder that Samson was so obese. Reply