Path: utzoo!utgpu!news-server.csri.toronto.edu!cs.utexas.edu!uunet!munnari.oz.au!uhccux!uhunix1.uhcc.Hawaii.Edu!davidh From: davidh@uhunix1.uhcc.Hawaii.Edu (David A. Helweg) Newsgroups: sci.bio Subject: Re: Walrus reproductive system Summary: no baculum in fibro-elastic penis type Message-ID: <13438@uhccux.uhcc.Hawaii.Edu> Date: 12 Jun 91 21:31:24 GMT References: <1991Jun3.103857.1951@world.std.com> <19@tdatirv.UUCP> Sender: news@uhccux.uhcc.Hawaii.Edu Organization: University of Hawaii Lines: 15 In article <19@tdatirv.UUCP> sarima@tdatirv.UUCP (Stanley Friesen) writes: >In article kell@cs.albany.edu (Brian A. Kell) writes: > >Actually, I would almost like to see a list of mammalian groups that do >*not* have baculi. The only one I can think of for certain right now >is primates (including humans). (Hmmm, perhaps even some primates have them). >-- I'm 99.44% sure that orders with fibroelastic penis types (ie, ungulates, cetaceans) do not have baculi. Another question I'd like to append onto yours is whether they bone exists in an enlarged state in female spotted hyenas, as they have such enlarged clitorises (based on the naive assumption that fetal tissue for penis/clitoris would include developmental instructions for making a baculum). dah