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The aim of this research was the development and maturation of neurons in the baso-lateral group of corpus amygdaloideum in pigs during the ontogenesis process. The brains of domestic pigs of both sexes (taken during the following periods of their lives: from 7th to 15th week of intrauterine life, newborn animals, one-month and one-year-old animals) were used as the material for the examination. The brains were removed and processed conventionally by the microscope. The basolateral group of corpus amygdaloideum in domestic pigs consists of nucleus amygdaloideum lateralis and nucleus amygdaloideum basalis-lateralis. In the 7th, 8th and 9th weeks of intrauterine life the primary corpus amygdaloideum is made up of a very large quantity of thickly arranged neuroblasts. Their nuclei are of spherical shape and the cell nucleus is surrounded by a very small quantity of cytoplasm. In the 10th, 11th and 12th weeks of intrauterine life the differentiation of the formerly homogenous cells takes place. The group, dorsally situated, is corpus amygdaloideum lateralis, while lying beneath it is corpus amygdaloideum basalislateralis. In the next period of intrauterine life and in newborn animals the appearance of nervous cells forming nucleus amygdaloideum lateralis and nucleus amygdaloideum basalis-lateralis does not change. One can say that the cells forming the above mentioned nuclei of corpus amygdaloideum in domestic pigs are already morphologically mature in newborn animals.