The Great Apes

[johnny rex]

(01-15-2020, 03:49 PM)The Panther Wrote: Big old Guhonda balancing on a tree and shaking it. It's interesting how he's still nimble despite his old age and great size.

Old mountain gorillas like Guhonda seem to be a good amount heavier than the big Chimanuka male I posted above. Based on my comparisons with the biggest captive gorillas on record, I was able to estimate the size range of the biggest males like Guhonda, likely from 250 to maybe 273 kg (550 to 600 lbs), making them as big as wild gorillas get. They could potentially get heavier with a more omnivorous diet, based on the fact that the biggest captive gorillas were also eating meat and were heavier than those weights, even being fed burgers in those times. They also managed to attain extreme sizes at very young ages, which would normally take wild mountain gorillas decades to achieve, with very few exceptions.

Samson was given hamburgers during his lifetime until he reached his heaviest before his caretakers started to give him healthier diet. Reply