How many baby Western gorillas are in a litter?
A Western gorilla (Gorilla gorilla) usually gives birth to around 1 babies.
Each of those little ones spend around 257 days as a fetus before they are released into the wild. Upon birth, they weight 2.1 kg (4.63 lbs) and measure 4.8 cm (0′ 2″). They are a member of the Hominidae family (genus: Gorilla). An adult Western gorilla grows up to a size of 1.6 meter (5′ 3″).
To have a reference: Humans obviously usually have a litter size of one ;). Their babies are in the womb of their mother for 280 days (40 weeks) and reach an average size of 1.65m (5′ 5″). They weight in at 62 kg (137 lbs), which is obviously highly individual, and reach an average age of 75 years.
The western gorilla (Gorilla gorilla) is a great apeāthe type species as well as the most populous species of the genus Gorilla.
Other animals of the family Hominidae
Western gorilla is a member of the Hominidae, as are these animals:
- Eastern gorilla weighting around 149.33 kilograms (329.22 lbs)
- Bornean orangutan with 1 babies per pregnancy
- Homo sapiens with 1 babies per pregnancy
- Sumatran orangutan weighting around 39.7 kilograms (87.52 lbs)
- Bonobo with 1 babies per pregnancy
- Chimpanzee with 1 babies per pregnancy
Animals that share a litter size with Western gorilla
Those animals also give birth to 1 babies at once:
- White-tailed deer
- Merriam’s pocket gopher
- Townsend’s big-eared bat
- Striped bush squirrel
- Insular horseshoe bat
- Dusky fruit bat
- Lowland mosaic-tailed rat
- Lesser sheath-tailed bat
- Common sheath-tailed bat
- Nilgiri langur
Animals that get as old as a Western gorilla
Other animals that usually reach the age of 54 years:
- Brown bear with 50 years
- Caspian seal with 50 years
- Melon-headed whale with 47 years
- Colombian white-faced capuchin with 54.75 years
- Indian rhinoceros with 49 years
- Hippopotamus with 54.5 years
- Mandrill with 46.25 years
- Short-finned pilot whale with 63 years
- Tufted capuchin with 45.08 years
- Caspian seal with 50 years
Animals with the same weight as a Western gorilla
What other animals weight around 113.29 kg (249.77 lbs)?
- Baiji usually reaching 112.07 kgs (247.07 lbs)
- Marsh deer usually reaching 111.76 kgs (246.39 lbs)
- Subantarctic fur seal usually reaching 92.21 kgs (203.29 lbs)
- Schomburgk’s deer usually reaching 107.63 kgs (237.28 lbs)
- Naemorhedus sumatraensis usually reaching 110 kgs (242.51 lbs)
- Arctocephalus forsteri usually reaching 101.13 kgs (222.95 lbs)
- Bornean bearded pig usually reaching 135.4 kgs (298.51 lbs)
- Sloth bear usually reaching 99.45 kgs (219.25 lbs)
- Common tsessebe usually reaching 133.5 kgs (294.32 lbs)
- Walia ibex usually reaching 99.77 kgs (219.95 lbs)
Animals with the same size as a Western gorilla
Also reaching around 1.6 meter (5′ 3″) in size do these animals:
- Yellow-backed duiker gets as big as 1.32 meter (4′ 5″)
- South Andean deer gets as big as 1.55 meter (5′ 2″)
- Subantarctic fur seal gets as big as 1.63 meter (5′ 4″)
- Leopard gets as big as 1.38 meter (4′ 7″)
- Taruca gets as big as 1.55 meter (5′ 2″)
- Spotted seal gets as big as 1.64 meter (5′ 5″)
- Soemmerring’s gazelle gets as big as 1.36 meter (4′ 6″)
- Ribbon seal gets as big as 1.53 meter (5′ 1″)
- Harbour porpoise gets as big as 1.53 meter (5′ 1″)
- Mule deer gets as big as 1.52 meter (5′ 0″)