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Gorilla moms have a roughly 8.5-month long gestation period, and infants weight about 1.4 – 1.8 kg (4 lb) when they’re born. That’s half the weight of the average human infant! However, gorillas grow faster and reach maturity around 12 years old. By the time they’re adults, gorillas end up weighing more than the average human. For males, this is between 136 – 219 kgs, or 300 – 485 lbs and for females, around 90 – 113 kg, or 200-250 lbs.
Moms typically will always be in close physical contact with their infants for about half a year after they’re born. This helps keep the infant safe, lets mom keep track of the baby during active moments like foraging or traveling, and provides comfort for the infant. At around 3 months of age, gorilla infants will start to manipulate objects and explore their environment. Around 8 months, they’ll be walking and exploring within a few feet of mom. As they gets older and braver they will range further (frequently with support from siblings and other juveniles).
Infants and their moms remain in close proximity to each other and share a very close relationship for the infant’s first few years. Other related females will sometimes try to help out, especially young siblings of the infant. When the infant is young, the mother will try to shoo the curious gorillas away. However, as the baby gorilla gets older and starts venturing away from its mother, juveniles will participate in the young gorilla’s life. They do this through activities such as infant carrying and playing.
Fossey Fund researchers are typically able to determine paternity through observations and genetic analysis, but gorilla infants don’t know who their dad is. There are a couple reasons for this: mountain gorilla groups can have multiple silverbacks which may have bred with the mother, or an infant’s mom may have transferred from a different group. Researchers have also determined that infants don’t show a preference for spending time with their biological fathers versus other silverbacks, further supporting the idea that the infant doesn’t know who their real dad is.
Adult male mountain gorillas don’t know which infant is theirs, but they spend time caring for and socializing with older infants. One famous example is the silverback Cantsbee, who was known to “babysit” five or six infants while their mothers were foraging. Research has also shown that blackback (immature) mountain gorilla males who spend more time playing with infants and juveniles are more likely to sire offspring once they become silverbacks. For an amazing story about a silverback stepping up in a time of crisis and providing care for infants read
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Gorilla moms have a roughly 8.5-month long gestation period, and infants weight about 1.4 – 1.8 kg (4 lb) when they’re born. That’s half the weight of the average human infant! However, gorillas grow faster and reach maturity around 12 years old. By the time they’re adults, gorillas end up weighing more than the average human. For males, this is between 136 – 219 kgs, or 300 – 485 lbs and for females, around 90 – 113 kg, or 200-250 lbs.
Moms typically will always be in close physical contact with their infants for about half a year after they’re born. This helps keep the infant safe, lets mom keep track of the baby during active moments like foraging or traveling, and provides comfort for the infant. At around 3 months of age, gorilla infants will start to manipulate objects and explore their environment. Around 8 months, they’ll be walking and exploring within a few feet of mom. As they gets older and braver they will range further (frequently with support from siblings and other juveniles).
Infants and their moms remain in close proximity to each other and share a very close relationship for the infant’s first few years. Other related females will sometimes try to help out, especially young siblings of the infant. When the infant is young, the mother will try to shoo the curious gorillas away. However, as the baby gorilla gets older and starts venturing away from its mother, juveniles will participate in the young gorilla’s life. They do this through activities such as infant carrying and playing.
Fossey Fund researchers are typically able to determine paternity through observations and genetic analysis, but gorilla infants don’t know who their dad is. There are a couple reasons for this: mountain gorilla groups can have multiple silverbacks which may have bred with the mother, or an infant’s mom may have transferred from a different group. Researchers have also determined that infants don’t show a preference for spending time with their biological fathers versus other silverbacks, further supporting the idea that the infant doesn’t know who their real dad is.
Adult male mountain gorillas don’t know which infant is theirs, but they spend time caring for and socializing with older infants. One famous example is the silverback Cantsbee, who was known to “babysit” five or six infants while their mothers were foraging. Research has also shown that blackback (immature) mountain gorilla males who spend more time playing with infants and juveniles are more likely to sire offspring once they become silverbacks. For an amazing story about a silverback stepping up in a time of crisis and providing care for infants read
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baby elephant is called a calf. It weighs about 250 pounds at birth and stands about three feet tall. Calves cant see very well at first, but they can recognize their mothers by touch, scent, and sound.
Baby elephants stay very close to their mothers for the first couple of months. The calves drink their mothers milk for about two years, sometimes longer. They drink up to 3 gallons of milk a day! At about four months old, they also begin eating some plants, like adult elephants, but they continue to need as much milk from their mother. They keep drinking milk for up to ten years!
At first, baby elephants dont really know what to do with their trunks. They swing them to and fro and sometimes even step on them. They will suck their trunk just as a human baby might suck its thumb.
By about 6 to 8 months, calves begin learning to use their trunks to eat and drink. By the time they are a year old, they can control their trunks pretty well and, like adult elephants, use their trunks for grasping, eating, drinking, bathing.
Female elephants stay with the herd for life, while males leave to begin a solitary life at about 12 to 14 years of age.
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Species of Elephants
For many years scientists thought that there were two different species of elephants: Asian elephants and African elephants. However, in 2000, they began classifying African elephants into two distinct species, the African savanna elephant and the African forest elephant.
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African savanna elephants live in the area of Africa below the Sahara desert. African forest elephants live in the rain forests of Central and West Africa. The elephants that live in the African forest have smaller bodies and tusks than those that live on the savannas.
Asian elephants live in the scrub and rain forests of Southwest Asia, India, and Nepal.
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Distinguishing Between Asian and African Elephants
There are many similarities between Asian and African elephants, but there are simple ways to distinguish one from the other. African elephants have much larger ears that seem to be shaped like the continent of Africa. They need large ears to cool off their bodies on the hot continent of Africa. Asian elephants ears are smaller and more rounded.
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There is also a distinct difference in the shape of Asian and African elephants heads. Asian elephants heads are smaller than an African elephants head and have a double-dome shape.
Both male and female African elephants can grow tusks, though not all do. Only male Asian elephants grow tusks.
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The Asian elephant is smaller than the African elephant. Asian elephants live in jungle habitats. Its entirely different than the deserts of Africa. Water and vegetation are more plentiful in the jungle. So Asian elephants do not need wrinkled skin to trap moisture or large ears to fan their bodies.
Even the trunks of Asian and African elephants are different. African elephants have two finger-like growths on the tip of their trunks; Asian elephants only have one.
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