Do male rabbits have nipples?
This topic is much debated. Even people who've had personal experience with rabbits - bunny owners, breeders, vets - disagree about whether male rabbits do or don't have nipples.DiscussionYes, male rabbits, like all male mammals, do have nipples.Not even all female mammals have nipples. Rats, horses, mice are mammals in which the male has no nipples. There seems to be much contradictory information on whether or not male rabbits have nipples. My male rabbit does not appear to have nipples.Yes, male rabbits have nipples, just as human males have nipples (same as human females). A buck (male) rabbit's nipples are smaller and more discrete than a female's, so they can sometimes be hard to find... but they are still there.Male bunnies do not need to produce milk for babies. Why would they have nipples?Why indeed? And yet, many male mammals have them, so this is a legitimate question and not rhetorical, as you seem to have intended it.Just as with humans, male rabbits do in fact have nipples. but they're vestigial and hard to see.My male rabbit appears to lack nipples. Some other male mammals do not have nipples; mice, rats, and horses being some of the prominent examples. Some mammals, such as the platypus, have no nipples in either sex.My male rabbit does have nipples. They're hard to see, and I'd probably never have known about them, but then one of them became irritated and swollen and we had to see the vet. The vet showed me his other nipples for comparison: tiny, tiny flaps of skin. Even though lots of people say they don't have nipples (even vets - link below), male rabbits do have nipples.