🐒 Chimpanzee vs Western gorilla 🦍
The western gorilla is about one and a half times as tall as the chimpanzee. The western gorilla weighs about 3 times as much as the chimpanzee.
| Row | 🐒 Chimpanzee | 🦍 Western gorilla |
|---|---|---|
| Top speed Neither has a checked number yet. | no checked number yet | no checked number yet |
| Weight The western gorilla weighs about 3 times as much as the chimpanzee. | 130 lb59 kg1 | 300 to 500 lb136 to 227 kg2 |
| Lives We don't have a checked number for the chimpanzee yet. | no checked number yet | 30 to 40 years30 to 40 years2 |
| Eats The chimpanzee eats plants and animals; the western gorilla eats plants. | fruit, leaves, seeds and insects, and sometimes small animals | leaves, stems, shoots and fruit |
| Lives in They can live in the same kind of place. | the forests of western and central Africa | the rainforests and swamps of western Central Africa |
Which one? Chimpanzee or western gorilla
🏁 Who would win the race?
We don't have a checked top speed for the chimpanzee or the western gorilla yet, so there is no race.
We only race. Real animals mostly avoid each other. A race is the only fair contest: who reaches the tree first, by top speed.
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The link carries only the two animals’ names: peabody.kids/animals/compare/chimpanzee-vs-gorilla
Where these numbers come from
- US Fish and Wildlife Service, Federal Register 2015 (Listing All Chimpanzees as Endangered), checked 30 October 2026.
- Smithsonian's National Zoo, Western lowland gorilla, checked 30 October 2026.