Male genitalia of red deer (Cervus elaphus)

Authors: Stewart DW
Publication: New Zealand Veterinary Journal, Volume 31, Issue 7, pp 122, Jul 1983
Publisher: Taylor and Francis

Animal type: Deer, Livestock, Production animal, Ruminant
Subject Terms: Reproduction, Reproduction - male, Species description
Article class: Correspondence

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Abstract: In the absence of readily available information on the male genitalia of the red deer, I dissected four stags. In these animals the scrotum, testes, epididymides, spermatic cord, penis, prepuce, ampullae, vesicmar glands and prostate had the same general form and position as in the bull and ram. However, there was only a slight sigmoid flexure in the penis; the glans penis formed a rosette (without a pronounced urethral process); a distinct transverse fibrous band linked the caudal parts of the two vesicular glands; the body of the prostate was bilobed; the disseminate part of the prostate appeared well developed; and the bulbourethral glands formed a bilobed structure in the midline and were largest in a stag that had been destroyed during the rut.

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