I uh… I was expecting it to be something like they eat a percentage of their own babies or something. Fuck that. Sounds like it would feel like giving birth through a penis.
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AFKBRBChocolate@lemmy.world 10 months ago
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.
Kolanaki@yiffit.net 10 months ago
Rai@lemmy.dbzer0.com 10 months ago
Fun fact: Female hyenas have a pseudopenis that prolapses into a dick that they rape their brothers with when they’re young
charlytune@mander.xyz 10 months ago
I don’t feel like I’m having fun here…
Rai@lemmy.dbzer0.com 10 months ago
Sometimes their hyena pseudo-penises fully rip off when they give birth, causing them to bleed to death!
PiratePanPan@lemmy.dbzer0.com 10 months ago
AFKBRBChocolate@lemmy.world 10 months ago
It sounds very much like that. Maybe worse.
Affidavit@aussie.zone 10 months ago
Well… If you insist.
en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Tasmanian_devil
“Gestation lasts 21 days, and devils give birth to 20–30 young standing up … As there are only four nipples in the pouch, competition is fierce, and few newborns survive.”
One guess as to what happens to the spares.
Zozano@aussie.zone 10 months ago
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 10 months ago
My only question is: why would they evolve like that?
Or alternatively, what the fuck were they before that gave birth like this?
Zozano@aussie.zone 10 months ago
Majority of male hyenas had a docking fetish, and evolution facilitated their needs.
Dasus@lemmy.world 10 months 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.
livescience.com/…/bats-with-weirdly-giant-penis-h…
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 10 months ago
Because they didn’t die like that.
Rai@lemmy.dbzer0.com 10 months ago
UGS is my favourite rap group
RIP young Pimp Clitoris With UGS
blazeknave@lemmy.world 10 months ago
Whoosh* What am I missing?
cordlesslamp@lemmy.today 10 months ago
Evolution, WHY!!?
ICastFist@programming.dev 10 months ago
“Because fuck you all” - Evolution
pete_the_cat@lemmy.world 10 months ago
WTF?
SpeakinTelnet@programming.dev 10 months ago
Hyenas are matriarchals and they fucking deserve it.
illi@lemm.ee 10 months ago
It absolutely wasn’t clear lol
Glifted@lemmy.world 10 months ago
The original message and the explanation were a rollercoaster for me. Not going to lie
flicker@lemmy.world 10 months ago
I think I got whiplash.
Lesrid@lemm.ee 10 months ago
Interesting how colloquially “earn it” is more positive than “deserve it”
AFKBRBChocolate@lemmy.world 10 months ago
Hey, the cartoon dog did warn us.
HEXN3T@lemmy.blahaj.zone 10 months ago
Hyenas got shafted. And, shafted.
FuglyDuck@lemmy.world 10 months ago
Eve: “So, what’s she do to piss off god?” Serpent: “you don’t even wanna know.”
cm0002@lemmy.world 10 months ago
“imTeLLiGENt DeSIgN”
FuglyDuck@lemmy.world 10 months ago
I’m with the other person… if it was intelligent design… it was some world creation game and we’re in a speed run save.
Icalasari@fedia.io 10 months ago
Or we have the equivalent of some Spore player who likes to make fucked up creatures for the sake of it
OtherPetard@feddit.nl 10 months ago
Love the conversations on the WTF Evolution tumblr: www.tumblr.com/wtfevolution
littlebluespark@lemmy.world 10 months ago
Abrahamic* to be precise. They’re all the same asshole, just different names. (And, even that was listed from earlier cultures’ traditions, FFS. Lazy, unoriginal, and fucking stupid? That tracks for religion all around, really.)
FuglyDuck@lemmy.world 10 months ago
I love how the gen 1 creation story basically reads like schoolboys one upping their friends about how great their dad is.
“Yeah. Well, my god made the world and everything in it! and he took a nap on. The seventh day!!!”
littlebluespark@lemmy.world 10 months ago
Swap out “schoolboys” with “old fear-mongering pervs”, and you’re even closer to the historical truth.
ICastFist@programming.dev 10 months ago
Fun fact, there’s a metaphorical dick-measuring contest in the bible, 1 Kings 18, 21 onwards (had to google it). Basically, Elijah wanted to prove GAHD was greater than Baal. Long story short, GAHD proved HE could light firewood that’s been dumped with water 4 times, while Baal was busy ignoring his followers from dawn to midday.