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Particularly for adrenarche, strikingly little is known about its distribution across the primate order. Here, we draw on a large sample of wild male mountain gorilla fecal samples collected over the full course of the gorilla lifespan to examine how the hormones T and DHEAS change with age. We use enzyme-linked immunosorbent assays to quantify metabolites of both hormones, and validate these assays using high-performance liquid chromatography\u2013tandem mass spectrometry analyses. We find that both hormones are high in male gorilla infancy, and then decline before T rises again at 9.3 years of age. Surprisingly, DHEAS rises\n                    <jats:italic>afterwards<\/jats:italic>\n                    at 10.7 years old, showing a departure from the human developmental pattern. T then peaks at 18 years of age, while DHEAS plateaus at ~\u200923 years of age. 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