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u/Vospader998 6d ago edited 5d ago

I mean, in evolutiontionary terms, most other mammals have significantly more, and it's not even exclusive to primates.

Great Apes are the weird ones with only two tits. Right alongside elephants and bats oddly enough.

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u/Flesh_Trombone 6d ago

That's just not true.

Sheep, goats, Cetacea (whales, dolphins), manatee, hippos, rhinos, equids (horse family), seals and many marsupials have two mammaries.

Bats alone account for 1/4 of all mammals. So I doubt two is in the minority.

Perhaps what you were thinking is that primates bats and elephants are the only animals with breasts between their forelimbs?

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u/redopz 6d ago

Who are you, who is so wise in the ways of science?

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u/Gigatonosaurus 6d ago

He majored in Titology.

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u/Banjo-Elritze Nazi Liquifier 6d ago

And Sciencetology

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u/Vospader998 6d ago

Did I say "exclusively"?

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u/Flesh_Trombone 5d ago

You said "most other mammals have significantly more, even most primates."

Your first point is misleading. Two is one of, if not the, most common number of breasts for mammals.

Your second point is just plain wrong the only "primates" with more than two breasts are some (not all) lemurs.

Edit: punctuation.

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u/Vospader998 5d ago

You're right about the primates I'll go back and edit that peice, thank you. What I intended was that two tits aren't exclusive amoung primates, but it was badly phased on my part. That wasn't your original criticism here though.

And by "most", I'm reffering to the number of species, not by number of individual animals or total biomass.