>From:    Brandon Burt <[log in to unmask]>
>Subject: Ferret "Thingies"
>
>>It's called a prepuce.
>I think "prepuce" actually just means "foreskin".
>
>I thought a ferret thingy was called something like a
>"bacula"
 
I believe the young lady that first asked the question was referring to the
externally visible "thingy" that's on a male ferret's belly.  That is not
his Bacula or Penis, which is normally internal.
 
In "Biology and Diseases of the Ferret" by James G.  Fox, says... "The
prepuce is a fold of skin reflected over the penis, which is hairy on the
external surface but bare within the fold."
 
So the prepuce is the little "belly-button" looking thing on the tummy of
a male ferret, at least by my understanding.
 
By the way, in the section on a male ferret's urogenital anatomy, Mr. Fox
does not use the word "bacula" once.  While I don't doubt Bob C.'s
accuracy, it doesn't seem to be commonly used to mean penis.
 
For the ferrets,
Mike
 
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[Posted in FML issue 2750]