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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

Nipple is mentioned on 1 other pagesHandrearing,

Nipple is mentioned on 4 elephant record pagesIrma, Raja, stillborn, unborn,

Reference list Koehl, Dan, (2025). 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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Records about Nipple from the Gajah Glossary, https://www.asesg.org/PDFfiles/Gajah/23-01-Glossary.pdf

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