Amazingly, gorillas and humans have the same number of hairs on their bodies.
They have thick, springy hair covering most of their bodies. However, adults do not have hair on the face, chest, palms or the soles of their feet. They can live more than 50 years.
Gorillas are the largest of the great apes. Although they're over 10 times stronger than humans, they share 98.3% of their DNA with us—making the gorilla our closest cousin after chimpanzees and bonobos.
Humans have just as many hair follicles as their closest relatives, however human body hair is on average much shorter, and finer than other primate's hair. This probably has to do with humans evolving on the savanna and evolving more efficient cooling with less thick body hair.
Sea otter underfur contains from 170,000 to 1,000,000 hairs per square inch, more than any other animal on Earth.
In a new study published Wednesday (Feb. 28) in the journal Nature, researchers identified a unique DNA mutation that drove the loss of our ancestors' tails. It's located in the gene TBXT, which is known to be involved in tail length in tailed animals.
Humans can't beat gorillas. Period.
Like humans, gorillas can have face to face sex, with the female lying down on her back and the huge silverback gorilla on top delivering slow strong thrusts! Gorillas also mate by way of the female turning and leaning over with her face to the ground and the male copulating from her behind/back (“dog-style”).
No, most humans cannot outrun a gorilla over short distances. Their explosive power gives them a clear advantage in sprints.
In the wild, a gorilla's lifespan is around 35-40 years, but they often live longer in captivity, sometimes for over 50 years. The oldest gorilla ever recorded was a female western gorilla at the Columbus Zoo that reached the ripe old age of 60 before dying in 2017.
This behaviour serves to establish and maintain dominance within their social group. By performing chest beats, silverbacks signal their strength and presence, deterring rivals and asserting their authority. For male gorillas, chest beating also plays a role in attracting females.
Despite plenty of CGI work, fully-grown mountain gorillas could not physically ride horses, and certainly not the middleweight horses shown in the movies. Gorillas can weigh up to 400lbs and wouldn't sit lightly, meaning a horse would suffer injury carrying them over a distance.
Sea Otter (Enhydra lutris) Sea otters have the thickest coat of any animal, with one million hairs per square inch of skin.
There is a sexual differentiation in the amount and distribution of androgenic hair, with men tending to have more terminal hair in more areas.
Human hair is in the neighborhood of 200 MPa, while structural steel is about 400 MPa. Spider webs are far stronger, though, at 1,200 MPa. And carbon nanotubes are among the strongest known materials, at about 62,000 MPa.
Although it's hard to say anything with absolute certainty, human DNA is so different to even our closest relatives that interbreeding is probably impossible. Despite this, Gallup believes that it is possible to crossbreed humans with great apes, including gorillas and orangutans.
Female gorillas get friskier when their silverback has sex with another female, even when they themselves cannot conceive.
For this reason, gorillas need to be habituated to people very slowly, and only when habituated will they accept humans as visitors. When people approach a group, the group leader needs to be 'informed' so as not to surprise him into responding aggressively to the intruders.
While gorillas are undeniably powerful creatures, they are not immune to weaknesses. Their reliance on fragile ecosystems, vulnerability to disease, slow reproductive rate, and the pressures of human encroachment present significant challenges to their survival.
African elephants. The African bush elephant, the largest land animal, is also the world's strongest animal in terms of brute strength, able to lift an astounding 13,230 pounds (6,000 kg). That's comparable to the weight of about four and a half Honda Civics.
– A Silverback gorilla can lift 4,000 lb (1,810 kg) on a bench press, while a well-trained man can only lift up to 885 lb. A gorilla can weigh up to 860 pounds, making them the largest species of extant primates.
A group of closely-related organisms that have common physical and genetic characteristics and are able to interbreed to produce fertile offspring. As humans, we experience dramatically fewer hazards today than we did in our early evolution. However, genetic studies indicate that we are still evolving.
Many believe that human ancestors had and used some form of a tail. Over time as a species, however, we evolved past the need for such an organ, which is why the majority of humans no longer grow them. Most humans grow a tail in the womb, which disappears by eight weeks.
Humans used to have whiskers too (about 800 000 years ago we lost the DNA for whiskers), but have now largely integrated the function performed by whiskers into their brains, specifically into their somatosensory cortex. The human brain devotes relatively huge portions of itself to sensing and processing touch.