| 1. | Like amazon parrots and macaws, cockatoos frequently develop cloacal papillomas.
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| 2. | The animal's cloacal glands give it a generally musty smell.
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| 3. | Most species also have cloacal sacs and fixed eyelids.
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| 4. | Externally, a swelling called the genital tubercule appears over the cloacal membrane.
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| 5. | The pouches on the diagram labeled as 2 are the paired cloacal bursae.
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| 6. | Most male birds ave no seminal glomera within the cloacal protuberance prior to copulation.
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| 7. | The contact is usually described by ornithologists as a " cloacal kiss ."
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| 8. | It's called the cloacal kiss.
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| 9. | Respiration also takes place through the proboscis although some larger species also use cloacal irrigation.
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| 10. | Birds reproduce using their cloaca; this occurs during a cloacal kiss in most birds.
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