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3_ u_] Tm: msronr or aivinans. 29 2. The bear has four, other animals have two mamma: upon Vg; r thethighs, and two nipples like sheep ; others have four nipples,

 * assthe cow ; some animals have not their nipples on the breast

<§.%_i and thighs, but on the abdomen, as the dog and the hog, j§§§'= fthey have many nipples, but not all of the same size; other QQC *’»` animals also have more than two, as the panther, which has

 `,_·_ four on the abdomen; the lioness has two on the abdomen,
 has two mammas and four nipples, like the cow.
`$;ijAmong animals with a solid hoof the males have no
 _`·;  ammae, except some horses which bear a resemblance to
 dams. Some males have the penis external, as man, and
 and many others; some internal, as the dolphin.
i iffthose animals in which it is external, some have it in
 as those which I have named ; and some of these have
 penis and testicles loose, as in man; others have
close to the abdomen; some have them more, others
 loose, for this part is not equally free in the boar and
 venom.
 4. The elephant has a penis like a horse, but small and less in
 proportion to the size of its body; its testicles are not external
 internal, and near the kidneys, wherefore also the work
leopulation is quickly performed. .The iemale has the
 in the same osition as the udder of the sheep,
 excited with tilesire, it is lilted up outwards, so as
;toYbe*ready for copulation with the male; and the orifice of
1:he* rpudendum is very wide. Most animals have the enis
  thegsame direction, but some areretromingent, as the liynx,
 »·`_   and hare. In some males, as I have said, the
 of the penis is different, but all females are re-
 even in the female elephant the pudendum is
 the thighs, as in other animals.
 *—·’ 5j;YThei enis is very diilerent in different animals, for in some
 and ileshy, as in man ; the flesh part does

§§¥{§a`f’;gii2>t`,i_`swell, ut the cartilaginous portion is erected; inothers

 as the camel and the stag; in others it is bony, as
 and the wolf, the weasel and the martin, for the
 has ¤ hwy 1>¤¤i¤·
,  man being a perfect animal, has the upper part
 body less than the lower part; the contrary is the case
 sanguineous animals: by the upper portion of
  she