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The miracle of childbirth

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Submitted ⁨⁨2⁩ ⁨years⁩ ago⁩ by ⁨fossilesque@mander.xyz⁩ to ⁨science_memes@mander.xyz⁩

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  • AFKBRBChocolate@lemmy.world ⁨2⁩ ⁨years⁩ 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.

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    • FuglyDuck@lemmy.world ⁨2⁩ ⁨years⁩ ago

      Eve: “So, what’s she do to piss off god?” Serpent: “you don’t even wanna know.”

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      • cm0002@lemmy.world ⁨2⁩ ⁨years⁩ ago

        “imTeLLiGENt DeSIgN”

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      • littlebluespark@lemmy.world ⁨2⁩ ⁨years⁩ 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.)

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    • Kolanaki@yiffit.net ⁨2⁩ ⁨years⁩ ago

      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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      • Rai@lemmy.dbzer0.com ⁨2⁩ ⁨years⁩ ago

        Fun fact: Female hyenas have a pseudopenis that prolapses into a dick that they rape their brothers with when they’re young

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      • AFKBRBChocolate@lemmy.world ⁨2⁩ ⁨years⁩ ago

        It sounds very much like that. Maybe worse.

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      • Affidavit@aussie.zone ⁨2⁩ ⁨years⁩ 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.

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    • Zozano@aussie.zone ⁨2⁩ ⁨years⁩ ago

      b4oi5phlztu71-2836181477

      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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      • onlinepersona@programming.dev ⁨2⁩ ⁨years⁩ ago

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

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

        Anti Commercial-AI license

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      • Rai@lemmy.dbzer0.com ⁨2⁩ ⁨years⁩ ago

        UGS is my favourite rap group

        RIP young Pimp Clitoris With UGS

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    • cordlesslamp@lemmy.today ⁨2⁩ ⁨years⁩ ago

      Evolution, WHY!!?

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      • ICastFist@programming.dev ⁨2⁩ ⁨years⁩ ago

        “Because fuck you all” - Evolution

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    • pete_the_cat@lemmy.world ⁨2⁩ ⁨years⁩ ago

      WTF?

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      • SpeakinTelnet@programming.dev ⁨2⁩ ⁨years⁩ ago

        Hyenas are matriarchals and they fucking deserve it.

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      • AFKBRBChocolate@lemmy.world ⁨2⁩ ⁨years⁩ ago

        Hey, the cartoon dog did warn us.

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      • HEXN3T@lemmy.blahaj.zone ⁨2⁩ ⁨years⁩ ago

        Hyenas got shafted. And, shafted.

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  • GrymEdm@lemmy.world ⁨2⁩ ⁨years⁩ ago

    It’s one of my go-to arguments against intelligent design.

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    • Shadowedcross@lemmy.world ⁨2⁩ ⁨years⁩ ago

      That, or God’s an arsehole, which all things considered…

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      • GrymEdm@lemmy.world ⁨2⁩ ⁨years⁩ ago

        “Is God willing to prevent evil, but not able? Then he is not omnipotent.
        Is he able, but not willing? Then he is malevolent.
        Is he both able and willing? Then whence cometh evil?
        Is he neither able nor willing? Then why call him God?”
        ― Epicurus

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      • ininewcrow@lemmy.ca ⁨2⁩ ⁨years⁩ ago

        Or God is a ten year old who is playing around with a world generating machine and has since forgot about us.

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    • protist@mander.xyz ⁨2⁩ ⁨years⁩ ago

      Bed bug mating practices are probably up there too

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      • OsrsNeedsF2P@lemmy.ml ⁨2⁩ ⁨years⁩ ago

        en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Traumatic_insemination

        Yea wth

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  • MonkderDritte@feddit.de ⁨2⁩ ⁨years⁩ ago

    Well that one’s cute.

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  • Zerush@lemmy.ml ⁨2⁩ ⁨years⁩ ago

    To understand it better how is the aspect of the clitoris of a female Hyena

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    • flora_explora@beehaw.org ⁨2⁩ ⁨years⁩ ago

      As context to your context:

      The genitalia of the female closely resembles that of the male; the clitoris is shaped and positioned like a penis, a pseudo-penis, and is capable of erection. The female also possesses no external vagina (vaginal opening), as the labia are fused to form a pseudo-scrotum. The pseudo-penis is traversed to its tip by a central urogenital canal, through which the female urinates, copulates and gives birth. (Source)

      scientists state that female spotted hyenas are the **only ** non-intersex female mammals devoid of an external vaginal opening, and whose sexual anatomy is distinct from usual intersex cases (source)

      Because hardly any other animal would give birth through a clitoris. That was the weird part for me because I knew about the peniform clitorises but not the missing external vaginas.

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  • spittingimage@lemmy.world ⁨2⁩ ⁨years⁩ ago

    Why cut off the last few panels of the comic?

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    • my_hat_stinks@programming.dev ⁨2⁩ ⁨years⁩ ago

      Nothing is cut off? The only thing missing is one bonus panel.

      www.litterboxcomics.com/birth-stories/

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      • spittingimage@lemmy.world ⁨2⁩ ⁨years⁩ ago

        Oh, I always thought that was part of the comic.

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  • buttwater@hexbear.net ⁨2⁩ ⁨years⁩ ago

    I shouldn’t have googled it

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  • myusernameis@lemmy.ca ⁨2⁩ ⁨years⁩ ago

    Well this discussion certainly ruined my love of The Lion King.

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  • Throw_away_migrator@lemmy.world ⁨2⁩ ⁨years⁩ ago

    I regret clicking into the comments to find the answer

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  • perishthethought@lemm.ee ⁨2⁩ ⁨years⁩ ago

    Awww, pugger

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  • notsure@fedia.io ⁨2⁩ ⁨years⁩ ago

    ummm, no

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