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Males stand upright at 1.67 m (5 ft 6 in), females at 1.5 m (4 ft 11 in). [8] [6] Zoo owner John Aspinall claimed a silverback gorilla in his prime has the physical strength of seven or eight Olympic weightlifters, but this claim is unverified. Western gorillas frequently stand upright, but walk in a hunched, quadrupedal fashion, with hands ...
Silverback gorilla. The silverback is the centre of the troop's attention, making all the decisions, mediating conflicts, determining the movements of the group, leading the others to feeding sites, and taking responsibility for the safety and well-being of the troop.
A full-grown male eastern gorilla typically weighs 140–205.5 kg (309–453 lb) and stands 1.7 m (5.6 ft) upright and a female typically weighs 90–100 kg (200–220 lb) and stands 1.5 m (4.9 ft) tall. [9] [10] The tallest silverback recorded was a 1.95-metre (6.4 ft) individual shot in Alimbongo, northern Kivu in May 1938. [11]
Azizi will lead the zoo's western lowland gorilla family group, which has been without a silverback since Oliver died in September.
Winston was the oldest gorilla in the San Diego park, and the second oldest in the United States. Ramses, a silverback that turned 53 this year, currently lives at the Fort Worth Zoo in Texas.
Titus (24 August 1974 – 14 September 2009) was a silverback mountain gorilla of the Virunga Mountains, observed by researchers almost continuously over his entire life. He was the subject of the 2008 PBS Nature / BBC Natural World documentary film Titus: The Gorilla King .