Monday, July 13, 2020

CROSS RIVER #12


2 comments:

Chic Silber said...


A number of infant gorillas are visible

in the photos taken earlier this year

Roger Smith said...

According to the Mark Jenkins story, mentioned above, mountain gorillas have "an unhurried reproductive biology." Males mature at 12 to 15 years, and females can mate at 8 to 10 years. Gestation averages at 8.5 months, and she delivers usually single births only once in 4 to 6 years. Infants weigh about 4 pounds, and may nurse 2 to 4 years. Given this mutated process, resurgent populations, when carefully counted, are still encouraging. It is presumed the Cross River gorillas share close reproductive statistics with their mountain cousins.