Columbia Water-Meal vs gorilla

Wolffia columbiana compared with Gorilla gorilla

Key Differences

Columbia Water-Meal is Least Concern while gorilla is Critically Endangered.

Taxonomic Classification

Rank	Columbia Water-Meal	gorilla
Kingdom	Plantae (植物)	Animalia (動物)
Phylum	Magnoliophyta (被子植物門)	Chordata (脊索動物)
Class	Liliopsida (単子葉植物綱)	Mammalia (哺乳類)
Order	Alismatales (オモダカ目)	Primates (サル目)
Family	Araceae	Hominidae (Great Apes)
Genus	Wolffia	Gorilla (Gorillas)
Species	Wolffia columbiana	Gorilla gorilla

Conservation Status

Columbia Water-Meal

LC — Least Concern

gorilla

CR — Critically Endangered

Population: ~100.0K

Trend: Decreasing ↓

Physical Characteristics

Attribute	Columbia Water-Meal	gorilla
Diet	—	Herbivore
Average Lifespan	—	40 years
Average Length	—	1.7 m
Average Weight	—	160.0 kg

Habitat & Geographic Range

Columbia Water-Meal

Habitat

Typically found in grasslands, wetlands, forests, and cultivated landscapes.

Range

Widely distributed across Asia (India), Europe (4 countries), North America (Canada, United States), and South America (Brazil, Colombia).

gorilla

Habitat

Found across multiple habitat types including tropical and subtropical moist broadleaf forests, tropical and subtropical grasslands and savannas, and flooded grasslands and savannas, among 4 distinct biome types within the Afrotropic biogeographic realm. Populations are also found in montane and highland environments at higher elevations.

Range

Distributed across Cameroon, Congo (Republic), Equatorial Guinea, and Gabon. Currently classified as Critically Endangered on the IUCN Red List, this species faces significant conservation challenges across its range.

Columbia Water-Meal

<em>Wolffia columbiana</em> is a diminutive aquatic flowering plant belonging to the family Araceae, widely recognized as one of the smallest known vascular plants on Earth. It inhabits still or slow-moving freshwater environments, including ponds, lakes, ditches, and quiet backwaters, where it floats freely at or just below the water surface. The species occurs across a broad geographic range spanning the Americas. As a rootless, leafless organism, <em>W. columbiana</em> consists of a tiny oval thallus, measuring only a fraction of a millimeter in diameter, which carries out photosynthesis directly through its green surface tissue. Reproduction is primarily vegetative, with daughter plants budding from a specialized pouch on the parent thallus, enabling rapid population expansion under favorable conditions. The species is assessed as Least Concern on the IUCN Red List, reflecting its wide distribution and tolerance of varied freshwater conditions.

gorilla

世界最大の霊長類であるニシゴリラは体重が最大180kgに達し、赤道アフリカの熱帯・亜熱帯の森林に生息する。主に草食性で、群れを守り社会的な対立を仲裁するシルバーバック雄が率いる家族集団を形成する。森林破壊、食肉目的の密猟、エボラウイルス感染症の流行により脅威にさらされており、近絶滅種（CR）に指定されている。