mammary glands
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These babies even share the mighty boob: breaking a "rule" of mammal biology, naked mole rats do not have just around half as many babies as they have mammary glands.
From Salon • May 11, 2025
The appearance of the virus in mammary glands — in cattle and even in non lactating mice — was also unexpected.
From New York Times • Jun. 17, 2024
It is produced by bacteria that live in the mammary glands of cows, but microbes in the human gut produce similar lantibiotics too.
From Science Daily • Feb. 2, 2024
“The way the behavior starts is: they knead the mother’s mammary glands to actually suck the milk,” she says.
From Scientific American • Sep. 7, 2023
We may take the mammary glands of mammals or organs adapted for the secretion of milk, whose only function is obviously the nourishment of the offspring.
From Hormones and Heredity by Cunningham, J. T.
