I find it peculiar that on e6 we seem to have taken to calling udders 'teats' to the point where the udder tag isn't tagged on posts containing them, only tagging teats. When a post contains an udder, we should tag it imo, it should be a helpful descriptor for the distinct body part. If we do, it should easily be identified by the existance of breast-like or baggy tissue found near the crotch of the creature, which houses teats. Seeing the structure without the teat visible should still be easily identifiable in most cases too.

Oh, looking into it more, the wiki for teats sounds like what should be described as the udder. Which is weird since teats are used to describe the nipples on areas other than the chest in other animals. Like dog teats and horse teats are distinct enough from each other to require using the udders tag for horses, yea?

While udders have different physical traits between the animals that have them and an even larger array of configurations an udder can be in within a species, I still find it useful to tag all of them as an udder.

dinbyy said:
If we do, it should easily be identified by the existance of breast-like or baggy tissue found near the crotch of the creature, which houses teats. Seeing the structure without the teat visible should still be easily identifiable in most cases too.

While not on a crotch at all, I guess tagging things like the distinct shape of a cow's udders that are somewhere else other than usual would work too? Like in post #4065974

While udders are considered a subtype of teats, they are both visually very different things.
When you think udders, you think of cows. When you think of teats, you think of (canine) bitches or sows.

Both can appear as "breast-like or baggy tissue found near the crotch", with udders specifically having multiple "teats/nipples" on top (akin to multi_nipple on a singular breast).

Comparing between the tags:

• A realistic female feral domestic_dog with rows of 6-10 teats on their bellies is considered teats + multi_teats.
• A realistic female feral horse with a pair of 2 teats near their groin is considered as simply teats.
• A realistic female feral cow with a large sack with 4 teats near their groin is considered teats + udders.

Technically teats are nipples, and nipples are teats. But as you both allude to, most people think of teats as the extra set(s) of nipples down the abdomen or on udders that many non-human mammals have. They aren't female-exclusive though, just as males can have nipples on their chest, they can also have teats lower down (or at least be depicted with them in artwork, even for species where it's not anatomically accurate).

thegreatwolfgang said:
While udders are considered a subtype of teats, they are both visually very different things.
When you think udders, you think of cows. When you think of teats, you think of (canine) bitches or sows.

Both can appear as "breast-like or baggy tissue found near the crotch", with udders specifically having multiple "teats/nipples" on top (akin to multi_nipple on a singular breast).

for animals like dogs or pigs, I thought the teats were always on a flat surface, no breast-like tissue projections.

dinbyy said:
for animals like dogs or pigs, I thought the teats were always on a flat surface, no breast-like tissue projections.

There can be some when it's a nursing female. Breasts swell up to help the young nurse on them, though they are flat when not nursing.

thegreatwolfgang said:
While udders are considered a subtype of teats, they are both visually very different things.

Both can appear as "breast-like or baggy tissue found near the crotch", with udders specifically having multiple "teats/nipples" on top (akin to multi_nipple on a singular breast).

I would still like a tag for the type of udders that are breast-like that are found on the crotch, since as far as I know, animals like dogs do not have their teats on their crotch. Also, some udders that are more "cow-like" only have one pair of teats, such as the ones on goat or sheep.

dinbyy said:
I would still like a tag for the type of udders that are breast-like that are found on the crotch, since as far as I know, animals like dogs do not have their teats on their crotch.

crotch_breasts?

dinbyy said:
I would still like a tag for the type of udders that are breast-like that are found on the crotch, since as far as I know, animals like dogs do not have their teats on their crotch.

Like @Watsit said, crotch_boobs.

Also, some udders that are more "cow-like" only have one pair of teats, such as the ones on goat or sheep.

Consider big_teats.

And yes, big_teats looks visually similar to crotch_breasts but the main difference is that the the former should be more teat-like while the latter should be more human-like (i.e., having different coloured areoli & nipples).

watsit said:
crotch_breasts?

thegreatwolfgang said:
Like @Watsit said, crotch_boobs.

Thanks