#0475 · 🦊 mammals
Western Gorilla
🇳🇱 Westelijke Gorilla ·Gorilla gorilla
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what is it?
The western gorilla ( Gorilla gorilla ) is a great ape—the type species as well as the most populous species of the genus Gorilla .
base stats
Bars compare against all animals on log scales: up to 300,000 Dutch and 600,000 worldwide sightings (the most-seen species), 150 t (blue whale), 30 m and 400 years (Greenland shark).
fun facts
- No confirmed wild sightings in the Netherlands on iNaturalist: you'd have to travel for this one.
- 1,995 observations worldwide on iNaturalist.
- Scientifically named by Thomas S. Savage in 1847 (179 years ago).
- Listed as Critically Endangered on the IUCN Red List.
fact sheet
- English
- Western Gorilla
- Nederlands
- Westelijke Gorilla
- scientific name
- Gorilla gorilla
- class
- Mammalia
- order
- Primates
- family
- Hominidae
- IUCN Red List
- CR · critically endangered
- sightings in NL
- 0
- sightings worldwide
- 1,995
- GBIF records in NL
- 1
- weight
- —
- length
- —
- lifespan
- —
- named
- 1847 by Thomas S. Savage
IUCN in Dutch: ernstig bedreigd. Blank means the sources don't say.
relatives· Hominidae
Sources: iNaturalist taxon 43580, Wikidata Q737838, GBIF 2436441, Wikipedia (EN), Wikipedia (NL). Intro text from Wikipedia (CC BY-SA 4.0).Updated 2026-10-24.