Black dot and acidified drinking water
This condition occurs almost exclusively in canaries. In a developing embryo, the gallbladder is temporarily abnormally large in size. Normally it shrinks back just before birth, so that it is no longer visible. Sometimes this does not happen, and the gallbladder remains visible as a black dot in the body of the newborn.
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