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Abstract This article is concerned with a Leslie–Gower predator–prey system with the predator being harvested and the prey having a delay due to the gestation of prey species. By regarding the gestation delay as a bifurcation parameter, we first derive some sufficient conditions on the stability of positive equilibrium point and the existence of Hopf bifurcations basing on the local parametrization method for differential-algebra system. In succession, we also investigate the direction of Hopf bifurcations and the stability of bifurcating periodic solutions on the center manifold by employing the center manifold reduction for functional differential equations. Finally, to verify our theoretical predictions, several numerical simulations are given.