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Why doesn't a dog have a naval?

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Anonymous

12y ago
Updated: 8/20/2019

Our distinctive navels are made by a deliberate knotting of the umbilical cord so we can be seperated from our mothers soon after birth.

This doesn't happen naturally to other animals. The umbilical cord will either shrivel and fall off, or be chewed off by the mother. Either way the point where it was cut from the baby will heal like any regular wound would, without leaving a mark (their body fur will also obscure the area).

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12y ago

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