The Great Apes

[The Panther]

(09-30-2019, 07:01 PM)GuateGojira Wrote:

(09-30-2019, 05:53 PM)johnny rex Wrote: Regarding the largest wild silverback, the weight of the Ambam specimen from Cameroon which is 574-588 lbs (which is widely regarded as the world record heaviest silverback, you can see it was quoted in Wikipedia article about gorilla) is nothing more than guess-timation. They'd never measured the real weight of the silverback manually so the real weight is unknown.

Good to know that, I think that the maximum weight for a gorilla, reliable recorded, is about 220 kg. I had the full list of all the maximim weights of gorillas, but I lost it.

But do you really think that's the heaviest they get? Because I find it hard to believe males like Guhonda weigh about or less than 220 kg, and this is coming from someone who hates big estimations without good comparisons. Old males like Guhonda seem to match some of the heaviest captive gorillas in size, albeit more muscular and healthier. I just feel like there isn't enough evidence on their size to determine if that's the heaviest they can attain or not, plus it would be unrealistic if that's all they could reach in the wild to be honest, wouldn't you agree? 

Please don't get me wrong, I understand that may be the biggest on record, but is it really the biggest they can get to? Reply