The Great Apes

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(09-30-2019, 10:37 PM)The Panther Wrote:

(09-30-2019, 10:25 PM)Shadow Wrote:

(09-30-2019, 10:13 PM)GuateGojira Wrote:

(09-30-2019, 09:37 PM)The Panther Wrote: 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?

You have a good point, the sample size of gorillas hunte/captured in the wild is very small, compared with other animals. So that may influence the posible specimens that we may found.

For all the studies that I could found previously, I remember that the heaviest male reliable recorded was one of 219 kg (Schaller, 1964), but there is other modern record of 220 kg (Briggs, 2018).

Here are the images:

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So, there is the posibility of heavier males, but for the moment, and based in the few samples available, those are the biggest ones.

By the way, here are some measurements that may interest you.

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So Schaller had information about adult males and average weight was 375 lbs, 170 kg. Then again that later book looks like to have information about Guhonda, just written by Briggs and Connolly as Guhondo. Such typos aren´t anything too special, I think. It looks like, that Guhonda has been weighed then 2018?

Really, they managed to weigh Guhonda, where?

That would be interesting to know more.

Here one example about it, how myths can start to live... :)

Quote:
"I’m standing 10 feet away from Guhonda, a Mountain Gorilla weighing  a staggering 1100 pounds.  No fences separate us; no vehicle waits to whisk us away to safety. I am, for all intents and purposes, a guest in his home, the thick bush of Volcanoes National Park in northwestern Rwanda.  I wait for the sense of danger to appear, the panic surely wrought by such close proximity to an animal as powerful as this. But it does not come. Instead I feel oddly at ease, Guhonda and his Gorilla family leisurely going about their day, oblivious to the human visitors who have traveled far and wide to catch a glimpse of him. Suddenly Guhonda springs to life and dashes forward with unnatural speed, grunting and pounding his chest like his famed cinematic cousin, a signal to the rest of the group it’s time to get moving. We stand in gleeful awe and understand King Kong has nothing on Guhonda, the real king of this remote world."

1100 pounds would be 499 kg...... 

"Source"  https://www.karellafrica.com/gorilla-trekking/gorilla-trekking-in-rwanda/
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