[sci.bio] Nipples on males in other mammals?

rosenblum@draco.rutgers.edu (01/13/89)

A discussion has been going in in sci.med about why human men have
nipples.  Do males of other mammals also have rudimentary nipples?

Daniel M. Rosenblum, Assistant Professor, Quantitative Studies Area,
   Graduate School of Management, Rutgers University (Newark)

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turpin@cs.utexas.edu (Russell Turpin) (01/13/89)

In article <1525@galaxy>, rosenblum@draco.rutgers.edu writes:
> A discussion has been going in in sci.med about why human men have
> nipples.  Do males of other mammals also have rudimentary nipples?

Have you never heard the expression "useless as a bull's teats?"

Russell

vu0112@bingvaxu.cc.binghamton.edu (Cliff Joslyn) (01/13/89)

Otto, my male cat, has nipples.  Tiny little cat nipples.  They're
definitely not ticks.
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