🦍 Gorilla

Unicode lists 🦍 Gorilla among the mammals in the Animals & Nature group. Typical contexts are animal.

🦍 fits messaging apps, social networks and anywhere a short visual cue helps. On SmileyZone it is filed under Emotions and Feelings. It joined the standard with Emoji 3.0 in 2016, so support on current devices is reliable. Its code point is U+1F98D.

• 🦍 on its own already flags the topic: animal.
• Fits messages about animal.
• Often seen near 🦧 Orangutan, 🐒 Monkey and 🐵 Monkey Face.

• 🦍🦧 – Gorilla and Orangutan
• 🦍🦝 – Gorilla with Raccoon
• 🦍🐱 – Gorilla plus Cat Face
• 🦍🐺 – Gorilla and Wolf
• 🦍🦊 – Gorilla with Fox
• 🦍🦮 – Gorilla plus Guide Dog
• 🦍🐒 – Gorilla and Monkey
• 🦍🐵 – Gorilla with Monkey Face

Easy to mix up with 🦧 Orangutan, 🐒 Monkey or 🐵 Monkey Face. They sit in the same Unicode subgroup and look similar at small sizes, so it is worth checking the name before sending.