ABSTRACT
The baby (newborn) male gorilla examined in this study was made available by the Bioparc Valencia, and had a total body weight of 2246 grams (Fig. 1). We took photographs of its musculoskeletal system, internal organs and skin. In the text below, when the data are available, we provide for each muscle: 1) its weight; when the muscle is part of a symmetrical structure (e.g., stylohyoideus), the weight given is that of the muscle of one side of the body; when the muscle is unpaired (e.g., diaphragm), the weight given is that of the part of the muscle that comes from one side only; 2) the most common attachments and innervation of the muscle within the gorilla clade, based on our dissections and on our literature review; 3) comparative notes, especially when where there are differences (e.g., regarding the presence/absence of the muscle, or of its bundles, its attachments, and/or its innervation) between the configuration usually found in other gorillas and the configuration found in the baby gorilla dissected by us or by others; and 4) a list of the synonyms that have been used by other authors to designate that muscle.
