The Great Apes

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(08-18-2019, 07:58 AM)Shadow Wrote: About gorilla weights and what it looks like.

This is Shabani, famous gorilla. These photos are from 2010, when it was 13 years old and told to have been 190 kg (419 lbs)

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http://www.higashiyama.city.nagoya.jp/blog/2010/08/post-3390.html

This video is from 2015, that time 180 kg (397 lbs)

http://www.bbc.co.uk/newsbeat/article/33283710/buff-silverback-gorilla-drawing-crowds-of-women-to-japanese-zoo

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Height is said to be 180 cm (5 ft 11 in), that is from wikipedia. For some reason weight was mentioned in many places, but height was with quick checking only in wikipedia. Maybe someone finds better source for height too. Anyway this might give some perspective, what a big gorilla looks like.

From what I've seen, there are definitely wild gorillas that are larger than him, but I'm sure you already knew that. The largest gorillas I've ever seen were always old male Eastern gorillas (Mountain & Grauer's gorillas), though some prime males do get pretty large themselves, normally the more experienced ones. Like I said, information on wild gorilla sizes are too scarce to show just how large they can get in absolutes, so there's a good chance the very large gorillas, pretty much like the old males I've seen haven't even been measured. All we have is an exceptionally tall male that was said to be about 6 ft 4 or 5 last time I checked, but I'm convinced the heaviest Eastern males are yet to be weighed.

Shabani is a great specimen, he has some good size on him and he's pretty well built for a zoo gorilla, but he pales compared to the biggest Eastern gorillas we've seen. He's still a great captive specimen regardless. Reply