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Records about Nipple from the Gajah Glossary at https://www.asesg.org/PDFfiles/Gajah/23-01-Glossary.pdf Nipples: Kardong 1998:213) Raised epidermal papilla that include multiple lactiferous ducts, releasing milk to the infant. They are prevalent among mammals; humans and elephants have pectoral Mammae with nipples. ["Teats", sometimcs erroneously said to be found in elephants, include a cistern and a single lactifetous duct; they are found in derived artiodactyls, such as deer, sheep, cows.]

M. Philip Kahl and Charles Santiapillai, Gajah Elephant Glossary, Gajah nr 23 (2004), Journal for Asian Elephant Specialist Group


Reference list Koehl, Dan, (2024). Nipple. Elephant Encyclopedia, available online retrieved 20 September 2021 at https://www.elephant.se/index.php?id=145. (archived at the Wayback machine)


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