8/14/2023 0 Comments Chimpanzee vs gorilla images![]() ![]() The world’s most intelligent chimpanzee is known as Natasha found in the Ngamba Island Chimpanzee Sanctuary in Uganda. Chimps have proportionately larger brains and are slightly more intelligent than gorillas on average.Chimpanzees have less sexual dimorphism than gorillas.Chimpanzees on the other hand have more slender hands and feet with larger thumbs. Gorillas have larger head crests, jaws, limbs, and thicker bones with less flexible feet and hands.Mountain Gorillas are known to use other parts of their hands for walking including using the backs of their hand and using their palms. Chimpanzees can also move quite efficiently in the trees where they do their eating, wild gorillas can climb trees too. Both Gorillas and Chimpanzees move by knuckle-walking (all fours) and at times walk bipedally (upright) for short distances.Female Gorillas are shorter and from 4 ft 1 to 4 ft 11 in. ![]() The standing height of Chimpanzees is about 3.3 to 4.6 ft whereas that of a male Gorilla is 1.4 ft to 5 ft tall.This means the Gorillas are much larger than the chimpanzees.Chimpanzees weigh about 40-60 kg for males and 27-50 kg for females whereas Wild gorillas weigh about 136-195 kg for adult males and adult females about 68 -113 kg.Both the Gorillas and Chimpanzees are subspecies of the great apes but vary in weight.Western Lowland Gorillas can be brown or grayish with a reddish forehead. The adult male Gorillas have a silver line of hair on their backs. ![]()
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