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==In non-human primates== While the labia majora is present in all female primates, many have them until adulthood or become inconspicuous around that period.<ref>{{cite book|last=Sheets-Johnstone|first=Maxine|publisher=Temple University Press|year = 2010|title=The Roots of Thinking|page=184|access-date=November 19, 2023|isbn=978-1-43990-365-0|url=https://books.google.com/books?id=2X0EXP5ahtsC&pg=PA184}}</ref> Primates besides humans that always have visible labia majora are [[bonobo]]s, [[Strepsirrhini|strepsirrhines]], [[tarsier]]s, [[Cebidae|cebid monkeys]], and [[gibbon]]s.<ref>{{cite book|last=Ankel-Simons|first=Friderun|publisher=Elsevier Science|year = 2012|title=Primate Anatomy: An Introduction|page=523|access-date=November 19, 2023|isbn=978-0-08046-911-9|url=https://books.google.com/books?id=Mwl3M6c5KzoC&pg=PA523}}</ref><ref>{{cite book|last=Rosenblum|first=Leonard A.|publisher=Elsevier Science|year = 2013|title=Primate Behavior: Developments in Field and Laboratory Research Β· Volume 2 |page=251|access-date=November 19, 2023|isbn=978-1-48327-182-8|url=https://books.google.com/books?id=QingBAAAQBAJ&pg=PA251}}</ref><ref>{{cite book|last=Poiani|first=Aldo|publisher=Cambridge University Press|year= 2010|title=Animal Homosexuality: A Biosocial Perspective|page=156|access-date=November 19, 2023|isbn=978-1-13949-038-2|url=https://books.google.com/books?id=EftT_1bsPOAC&pg=PA156}}</ref> In non-primate female [[mammal]]s, the labia majora are absent since the labioscrotal swellings have disappeared as a fetus.<ref>{{cite book|last=Kumar|first=M.S.A.|publisher=Linus Learning|year = 2015| title=Clinically Oriented Anatomy of the Dog & Cat| page=1254|isbn=978-1-60797-552-6|url=https://books.google.com/books?id=ZBSSDwAAQBAJ&pg=PA1254}}</ref> Because of this, the pudendal cleft refers to the slit between the [[labia vulvae]] in those mammals.<ref>{{cite book |last1=Studdert | first1=Virginia P. |last2=Gray |first2=Clive C. | publisher=Elselvier Health Sciences |year=2011 | title=Saunders Comprehensive Veterinary Dictionary E-Book |page=1183 |isbn=978-0-70204-744-2|url=https://books.google.com/books?id=6dvQAQAAQBAJ&pg=PA1183}}</ref>
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