🐒 Chimpanzee vs Bornean orangutan 🦧
The Bornean orangutan weighs about one and a half times as much as the chimpanzee.
Bornean orangutan: no checked size yet, so it isn't drawn.
| Row | 🐒 Chimpanzee | 🦧 Bornean orangutan |
|---|---|---|
| Top speed Neither has a checked number yet. | no checked number yet | no checked number yet |
| Weight The Bornean orangutan weighs about one and a half times as much as the chimpanzee. | 130 lb59 kg1 | 170 to 220 lb77 to 100 kg2 |
| Lives We don't have a checked number for the chimpanzee yet. | no checked number yet | 27 years27 years2 |
| Eats The chimpanzee eats plants and animals; the Bornean orangutan eats plants. | fruit, leaves, seeds and insects, and sometimes small animals | fruit, leaves, bark and shoots |
| Lives in They can live in the same kind of place. | the forests of western and central Africa | the rainforests of the island of Borneo |
Which one? Chimpanzee or Bornean orangutan
🏁 Who would win the race?
We don't have a checked top speed for the chimpanzee or the Bornean orangutan 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-orangutan
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, Orangutan, checked 30 October 2026.