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Old 02-26-01, 08:41 AM
Darth_Vader Darth_Vader is offline
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Really scraping the bottom of the barrel here...
The egg laying orifice in birds is known as the cloaca and shares both a reproductive and excretory function (ie the alimentary canal empties into it as well).
Birds, Reptiles and Monotremes (egg-laying mammals) all have cloacae.
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