The Great Apes

[The Panther]

(12-17-2019, 09:48 PM)Shadow Wrote:

(12-17-2019, 06:09 PM)The Panther Wrote:

(12-15-2019, 03:52 PM)Shadow Wrote:

(12-09-2019, 01:13 AM)Sully Wrote: On #383 That's forced perspective to the extreme to be fair, no way to tell if he's actually bigger than normal or not

Yes, that photo is typical example how some animal can be made to look like much bigger than it is in reality. When people keep in mind, that gorillas are in average around 170 cm tall when standing, it´s easy to notice when something is not right in the photo. But of course, when a woman stands 5-20 meters behind a sitting gorilla, gorilla looks like to be huge. Put there an average male brown bear next to that gorilla and suddenly that "huge" gorilla looks like a child :)

@Shadow @Sully
The silverback in question Isabukuru was actually a pretty big male, in fact, people have mentioned his exceptional size for his young age. He unfortunately died at only 24 years old.
This is him from a different angle. He was 22 years old here. 

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*This image is copyright of its original author

https://gorillasafarisinuganda.blogspot.com/2017/04/a-tribute-to-silverback-isabukuru.html?mhim.
"Even as a young black back, he was famous because of his gigantic size despite his tender age and very popular among females which he broke away with from Cantsbee's group in 2007, and started his own group at just the age of 14 taking three females with him."
Last paragraph in the link.

It can be big what comes to gorillas, but that photo didn´t give realistic perspective. Typical photo exaggerating size of an animal. As I said, if there would be a brown bear right next to that gorilla, it would look more like child looks like right next to adult. 160-200 kg isn´t same as 300-400 kg. Just like some 50-60 kg woman 5-10 meters behind a silverback gorilla looks to be even smaller than she is. That was my point, not to say if that gorilla was small of big gorilla, when compared to other gorillas.

Yes, but no one even mentioned big 400 kg bears at all, it's a fact that he was a huge gorilla, and it's accepted by everyone who observed him throughout the years. No one here thinks 160-200 kg is the same as 300 kg or 400 kg, though I'm pretty sure he was a lot larger than 200 kg. Maybe the example Spalea used didn't do Justice to Isabukuru's great size, sure, but I just wanted to mention that he was indeed considered a very large male, especially for his age. Reply