Ask the Author; Mammal Maternity Medians

 

Okay, so I don't have every species in my Zootopia fics planned out, as this is again the sort of information cultivated when it's called for in a fic. What I can tell you, is that I have a general rule of thumb for estimating a species gestation that I go to in order to figure out any species gestation that may help you. Generally, when calculating a species' gestation period, I take the species in question, and the average human gestation and then find a median between them.

Let's use Paige as an example, as she's semi-complicated. So first I took the gestation period of a grey wolf, which is around 62-75 days. I used the maximum, converted it to months ( roughly 2 and a half ), and then weighed it against a human's 9-month gestation. With that, I reached a middle average of around 5.75 months, so I chose to round up to a flat 6 months.

Now, in comparison sheep have a gestation of about 5 months. So again using the median system when compared against human pregnancy you get 7 months total.

So now we have our average gestation for Zootopian Wolves ( 6 months ), as well as our Zootopian Sheep average ( 7 months) Which places a hybrid like Paige's gestation at 6 and a half months at the earliest.

So that's my rule of thumb system you can use with any species. Mega or Micro, whatever, that's the general rule my gestation periods will be going by. And if you're wondering why I weigh all the gestations against human gestation periods, I mean...it should be obvious. We are the only sapient species in our reality, and so it seems that in order to produce another functioning sapient member of our species, we take about 9 months to do so. Taking that into account, it seemed like the best development cycle to weigh against a bunch of sapient animal folk.  For similar reasons, I use the 6ft height marker as my character average as it's easier to figure everything else out around it. I'm just glad that according to the documentation for Zoot wolves stood at about 6 feet, as I was able to sort of figure out everyone's size around one of the main characters in my fic. Though probably taking an average from all the species in Zoot would probably make the average closer to 4 feet.

Feel free to use this method for your own fics and works if you want guys, I don't mind.

-Wasty