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[–] AFKBRBChocolate@lemmy.world 278 points 1 year ago (45 children)

For those curious, from Wikipedia:

Giving birth is difficult for female hyenas, as the females give birth through their narrow clitoris, and spotted hyena cubs are the largest carnivoran young relative to their mothers' weight. During parturition, the clitoris ruptures to facilitate the passage of the young, and may take weeks to heal.

[–] Zozano@aussie.zone 54 points 1 year ago (2 children)

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This might help.

Female Hyena's have what is called a pseudo-penis. Which is used for sex and urination, as well as giving birth.

Obviously giving birth splits it open fucks your whole year / life up.

[–] onlinepersona@programming.dev 4 points 1 year ago (3 children)

My only question is: why would they evolve like that?

Or alternatively, what the fuck were they before that gave birth like this?

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[–] Zozano@aussie.zone 4 points 1 year ago

Majority of male hyenas had a docking fetish, and evolution facilitated their needs.

[–] Dasus@lemmy.world 1 points 1 year ago

Probably just "regular" mammals.

Mammals have a lot of weird dick things. Some bats have gone from penetrative sex back to just like touching genitals because their dicks are so huge they literally don't fit anymore.

https://www.livescience.com/animals/bats/bats-with-weirdly-giant-penis-have-sex-for-up-to-12-hours-in-a-way-never-seen-in-mammals-before

So having a impractically huge dick was more important for some reason.

Guess something similar happened with hyenas vis-a-vis having become matriarchal at some point.

[–] fsxylo@sh.itjust.works 1 points 1 year ago

Because they didn't die like that.

[–] Rai@lemmy.dbzer0.com 3 points 1 year ago (1 children)

UGS is my favourite rap group

RIP young Pimp Clitoris With UGS

[–] blazeknave@lemmy.world 1 points 1 year ago

Whoosh* What am I missing?

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