How long do gorillas live?

How long do gorillas live?

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The record for a gorilla living in captivity was an animal in Philadelphia Zoo that lived to 54. But generally speaking you could say that a captive animal will live for anything into sort of late 40s or early 50s. In the wild we dont know how long gorillas live because records only began sort of less than 30 years ago, so we've got a while to go until we know. But I think we can probably safely say that wild gorillas, as with most wild animals, compared to their captive cousins will live slightly less simply because they don't have the access to the healthcare, the guaranteed food, and the lack of predators like captive gorillas do.