Avian Male Reproductive Tract - Anatomy & Physiology
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Testes
- Bean-shaped, paired
- Lie near the cranial pole of the kidney
- Medially, they lie close to the aorta and caudal vena cava.
- Each testical suspended by a short mesochorium and surrounded medially by the abdominal air sac.
- Left tends to be larger than right in immature birds.