Is that right that big cats (and most mammals) have a bone in their penises?
A. The zoologists call it the os penis ; others call it the baculum, or just the penis bone. Not many humans realise it exists in male animals – because we are one of the few who don’t have one. (In fact, we seem so different from other mammals that I sometimes wonder if we really aren’t descended from space aliens – we have a poor sense of smell and little use of pheremones, we are almost hairless, our females have menstrual cycles instead of oestrus (heat) cycles, men have a free-hanging penis that does not protrude from its sheath during erection, and they don’t have a baculum.) So other male mammals have a penis bone – in some animals like the walrus it’s the same size and shape as a decent sized club and the Innuit people use it for just that. Imagine getting bashed over the head by the bone of a walrus’s cock! In dogs it can be easily felt – I was trained by a vet to feel it to assess if it is broken or not – and even cats have it, although in the domestic moggy it’s tiny, smalle
