Male and female western lowland gorillas are about the same size and look, until around the age of eight. Read more at straitstimes.com.
What was supposed to be an ordinary day for staff at a zoo in the United States turned out to be anything but when they discovered a gorilla they thought to be male had given birth to a baby.
Explaining in a blog post why they did not know Sully, who has been at the zoo since 2019, was female and pregnant, the zoo said it is hard to tell the sex of younger gorillas. Gorillas do not have prominent sex organs, and males and females are about the same size and look until around the age of eight.
When Sully arrived at the Columbus zoo, she was young and healthy, and did not need any procedures requiring immobilisation that would have led to this discovery sooner, the zoo added.
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