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The miracle of childbirth (mander.xyz)
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[–] 55 points 2 years 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.

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  • [–] 4 points 2 years 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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  • [–] 1 point 2 years 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.

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