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Bulldog's Large Clitoris Poses Genetic Mystery

Monday, September 26, 2011 15:57

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Bijou is an 18-month-old French bulldog (like the one shown here) found to have a penis bone within her clitoris. She baffled scientists because she does not have the genetic abnormality that typically causes genetically female dogs to develop male sexual features. Bijou’s owner declined to have photos of the dog released.
CREDIT: Matteo Dini | Shutterstock

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Bijou, an 18-month old, healthy and well-behaved French bulldog has an abnormally large clitoris, so large that her owner brought her to the Université de Montréal Faculty of Veterinary Medicine to find out what was going on.

Examinations revealed that Bijou has what appears to be an undeveloped prostate gland, as well as deteriorated testis and a penile bone — called a baculum it is present in male dogs’ penises — inside her large clitoris.

An x-ray of Bijou the French bulldog’s abnormally large clitoris revealed that it contained a baculum (or penile bone).
CREDIT: Faculty of Veterinary Medicine, Universite de Montreal

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A genetic analysis revealed a mystery: Bijou is a genetically female dog, but she does not have the genetic abnormality that can cause some female mammals to develop testicles and other male features. [Gallery: Stunning She-Males of the Animal World]

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