The Great Apes

[GuateGojira]

(10-01-2019, 07:19 PM)Hello Wrote: So the largest verified is 219 kg and tallest is 196 cm.

Well, about the weight yes, and this is supported by Dr Schaller and also by Gerald Wood in the book "Animal Facts and Feats" (1978).

However, about the height, there are contradictions. Wood (1978) says that the tallest male accuratelly measured (from crown to heel) was of 188 cm in real height, hunted in the Mt Karisimbi, eastern Congo. There are other figures of higher specimens but all seems to be incorrectly taken. The images of that page are in the first posts of this topic.


However, this very reliable source quote a higher figure for the eastern gorillas, at up to 196 cm in standing height:

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Finally, it is the "Animal Records" book of Mark Carwardine of 2008, check this: 

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Interestingly Wood (1978) do not mention any height for the male shot by Commander Gatti, and the sources contradict themselfs as Wood says that the gorilla from Commander Gatti is correct but Cawardine says that is not confirmed, and quote other male of the same weight, in the same region.

That is the problem with the sources, I will normally follow the investigations of Wood, but Carwardine seems also reliable. Reply