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==== Carnivores ==== Male [[felid]]s are able to [[Urination#Felidae|urinate backwards]] by curving the tip of the glans penis backward.<ref name="Ewer1973"/><ref name="Mathur2010">{{cite book |last=Mathur |first=Reena |url=https://books.google.com/books?id=QKXOCgoI6D8C&q=curved+backward |title=Animal Behaviour 3/e |publisher=Rastogi Publications |year=2010 |isbn=978-81-7133-747-7 |access-date=10 February 2013}}{{Dead link|date=June 2023|bot=InternetArchiveBot|fix-attempted=yes}}</ref> In cats, the glans penis is covered with spines. [[Penile spines]] also occur on the glans of male and female [[spotted hyena]]s.<ref name="Ewer1973">{{cite book |last=Ewer |first=R. F. |url=https://books.google.com/books?id=IETMd3-lSlkC&q=glans&pg=PA116 |title=The Carnivores |publisher=Cornell University Press |year=1973 |isbn=978-0-8014-8493-3 |pages=116– |access-date=8 February 2013}}</ref> In male dogs the glans penis is smooth and consists of two parts called the ''[[bulbus glandis]]'' and ''pars longa glandis''.<ref name="EvansLahunta2013">{{cite book |last1=Evans |first1=Howard E. |url=https://books.google.com/books?id=6eBOAQAAQBAJ&q=%28%22glans%22+OR+%22bulbus+glandis%22+OR+%22pars+longa+glandis%22%29 |title=Miller's Anatomy of the Dog |last2=de Lahunta |first2=Alexander |date=7 August 2013 |publisher=Elsevier Health Sciences |isbn=978-0-323-26623-9}}</ref> The glans of a [[Fossa (animal)|fossa]]'s penis extends about halfway down the shaft and [[penile spines|is spiny]] except at the tip. In comparison, the [[Penis|glans of felids]] is short and spiny, while that of [[Viverridae|viverrids]] is smooth and long.<ref name="1986Köhncke">{{cite journal | last1 = Köhncke | first1 = M. | last2 = Leonhardt | first2 = K. | title = ''Cryptoprocta ferox'' | journal = [[Mammalian Species]] | issue = 254 | pages = 1–5 | year = 1986 | doi = 10.2307/3503919 | jstor = 3503919 | url = http://www.science.smith.edu/departments/Biology/VHAYSSEN/msi/pdf/i0076-3519-254-01-0001.pdf | access-date = 19 May 2010 | archive-date = 21 June 2010 | archive-url = https://web.archive.org/web/20100621003457/http://www.science.smith.edu/departments/Biology/VHAYSSEN/msi/pdf/i0076-3519-254-01-0001.pdf | url-status = live }}</ref>
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