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patiodog wrote:

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Bird Belly Buttons
Recently I wrote a book for children called Who Has a Belly Button? The book is about mammals and why mammals have belly buttons. A reader has written that birds also have belly buttons. When I was doing my research for the book, I did not find any reference to belly buttons in birds. I would appreciate it very much if you could tell me whether birds do indeed have belly buttons.

Thanks for the delightful question. In the egg there is a cord that attaches the developing embryo to the yolk sac. When the bird hatches, there is a residual scar where the cord used to be. While the bird is a nestling, you can still see what would be the avian equivalent of a belly button. However, as the bird develops, that area becomes more compact and in an adult bird there is virtually nothing to be seen of what once was the scar. So technically baby birds have belly buttons, but unlike the belly buttons of humans, these go away as they grow up.

http://www.birds.cornell.edu/AllAboutBirds/faq/unusual_questions

Thanks for the info, pd. Not sure whether this applies to frogs, but it's interesting to know this about birds. Live and loin.

Maybe not. No allantois.

I don't give a flying piece of monkey poo stapled to a garbage can lid with a note from the wife saying she's gone and never coming back and moreover she's poured the last of the Gordon's down the toilet.

patiodog wrote:

I don't give a flying piece of monkey poo stapled to a garbage can lid with a note from the wife saying she's gone and never coming back and moreover she's poured the last of the Gordon's down the toilet.

Huh?

Roberta wrote:

patiodog wrote:

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Bird Belly Buttons
Recently I wrote a book for children called Who Has a Belly Button? The book is about mammals and why mammals have belly buttons. A reader has written that birds also have belly buttons. When I was doing my research for the book, I did not find any reference to belly buttons in birds. I would appreciate it very much if you could tell me whether birds do indeed have belly buttons.

Thanks for the delightful question. In the egg there is a cord that attaches the developing embryo to the yolk sac. When the bird hatches, there is a residual scar where the cord used to be. While the bird is a nestling, you can still see what would be the avian equivalent of a belly button. However, as the bird develops, that area becomes more compact and in an adult bird there is virtually nothing to be seen of what once was the scar. So technically baby birds have belly buttons, but unlike the belly buttons of humans, these go away as they grow up.

http://www.birds.cornell.edu/AllAboutBirds/faq/unusual_questions

Thanks for the info, pd. Not sure whether this applies to frogs, but it's interesting to know this about birds. Live and loin.

So....do insect larvae and tadpoles and dinosaurs have belly buttons, then?

patiodog wrote:

Maybe not. No allantois.

What?

dlowan wrote:

patiodog wrote:

I don't give a flying piece of monkey poo stapled to a garbage can lid with a note from the wife saying she's gone and never coming back and moreover she's poured the last of the Gordon's down the toilet.

Huh?

For your general edification -- boida's been doing Who's On First? -- Who is on first, What is on second, I Don't Know is on third, Today and Tomorrow play in the outfield...

The close of the act goes thusly....

"...I don't give a damn!"

"What's that?"

"I said, 'I don't give a damn!'"

"Oh! That's our shortstop!"

Ba bum bum bum bum bum bum baaaaaah!

dlowan wrote:

patiodog wrote:

I don't give a flying piece of monkey poo stapled to a garbage can lid with a note from the wife saying she's gone and never coming back and moreover she's poured the last of the Gordon's down the toilet.

Huh?

For your general edification -- boida's been doing Who's On First? -- Who is on first, What is on second, I Don't Know is on third, Today and Tomorrow play in the outfield...

The close of the act goes thusly....

"...I don't give a damn!"

"What's that?"

"I said, 'I don't give a damn!'"

"Oh! That's our shortstop!"

Ba bum bum bum bum bum bum baaaaaah!

Pooetic license.

a regular Edgar Allen Poo...

you and your overly-sensitive twitchy nose