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 2 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 2 months ago
Rai@lemmy.dbzer0.com 2 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 2 months ago
I don’t feel like I’m having fun here…
Rai@lemmy.dbzer0.com 2 months ago
Sometimes their hyena pseudo-penises fully rip off when they give birth, causing them to bleed to death!
PiratePanPan@lemmy.dbzer0.com 2 months ago
AFKBRBChocolate@lemmy.world 2 months ago
It sounds very much like that. Maybe worse.
Affidavit@aussie.zone 2 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 2 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 2 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 2 months ago
Majority of male hyenas had a docking fetish, and evolution facilitated their needs.
Dasus@lemmy.world 2 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 2 months ago
Because they didn’t die like that.
Rai@lemmy.dbzer0.com 2 months ago
UGS is my favourite rap group
RIP young Pimp Clitoris With UGS
blazeknave@lemmy.world 2 months ago
Whoosh* What am I missing?
cordlesslamp@lemmy.today 2 months ago
Evolution, WHY!!?
ICastFist@programming.dev 2 months ago
“Because fuck you all” - Evolution
pete_the_cat@lemmy.world 2 months ago
WTF?
SpeakinTelnet@programming.dev 2 months ago
Hyenas are matriarchals and they fucking deserve it.
illi@lemm.ee 2 months ago
It absolutely wasn’t clear lol
Glifted@lemmy.world 2 months ago
The original message and the explanation were a rollercoaster for me. Not going to lie
flicker@lemmy.world 2 months ago
I think I got whiplash.
Lesrid@lemm.ee 2 months ago
Interesting how colloquially “earn it” is more positive than “deserve it”
AFKBRBChocolate@lemmy.world 2 months ago
Hey, the cartoon dog did warn us.
HEXN3T@lemmy.blahaj.zone 2 months ago
Hyenas got shafted. And, shafted.
FuglyDuck@lemmy.world 2 months ago
Eve: “So, what’s she do to piss off god?” Serpent: “you don’t even wanna know.”
cm0002@lemmy.world 2 months ago
“imTeLLiGENt DeSIgN”
FuglyDuck@lemmy.world 2 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 2 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 2 months ago
Love the conversations on the WTF Evolution tumblr: www.tumblr.com/wtfevolution
littlebluespark@lemmy.world 2 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 2 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 2 months ago
Swap out “schoolboys” with “old fear-mongering pervs”, and you’re even closer to the historical truth.
ICastFist@programming.dev 2 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.