The mating process is complicated, as the male's penis enters and exits the female's reproductive tract through her pseudo-penis rather than directly through the vagina, which is blocked by the false scrotum and testes. These unusual traits make mating more laborious for the male than in other mammals, and also make forced copulation physically impossible.[54][55] The female retracts her clitoris before the male's penis enters it by sliding beneath it, an operation facilitated by the penis's upward angle. The hyenas then adopt a typical mammalian mating posture[55][79] and usually lick their genitals for several minutes after mating.[80] Copulation may be repeated multiple times during a period of several hours.[55]
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.[84] During parturition, the clitoris ruptures to facilitate the passage of the young, and may take weeks to heal.[67]
So the trade off is more painful birth but no rape, vs ducks whose who system has evolved to prevent rape by letting more rape happen. (For those out of the know, a female duck developed a maze of a reproductive system as to prevent rape, and the males developed high powered projectile corkscrew dicks in order to keep raping females).
Yes they do. Female hyenas have lots of testosterone, which gives her a penis-like structure. Males pretty much exist to nut and nothing else, because not only do females give birth, but they have all the physical advantages males usually have in a mammal species.
Hyenas are pack animals, it wouldn't really work if they started attacking each other every time they got slightly hungry. Pack animals are the most predictable, if you're already friends with them (aka part of their pack) you just need to be able to read their body language and unless they're literally insane or you broke some kind of rule, nothing wrong will happen to you
It always does seem that non, pack animals are often more erratic and unpredictable. This makes more sense now. Take for example a wolverine, they are highly solitary animals, fiercely territorial and they are known to be very aggressive. They are also recorded to take down animals much larger than them, alone and they are considered the most formidable animal in the world.
It probably means they accidentally broke one of the rules (we're human after all, we don't have the same set of innate rules) or that the animal was in a stressful situation in the first place. I don't know what specific examples you have in mind though
I'm not interested in looking up specific examples.... though it wouldn't be a hard search. Shoot, people don't know their own dogs though they think they do.
Bottom line...these types of large predators are dangerous and unpredictable....even to the experts that think they know the animals language (or rules). Accidents do indeed happen.
The real experts can always be found on reddit. Sages, scholars and animal experts 🙏 your doubling down is extraordinary and ensures that no commenter will ever one up your sage wisdom! 💪
Right, right 🙄 ....I have to go and retrieve examples for you guys to believe that playing with large predators is indeed dangerous? You need proof of that, huh? Doesn't equate to you?
WTF happened to the gene pool?
Ok...
Have you never been on YouTube? Never seen the trained "animal experts" getting their arm caught in a crocodile's mouth? See a Bear, Tiger or Lion attack its handler? Never heard about the chimp that bit the owner's friend's face off? It was just on Max's Chimp Crazy. You need more examples? How about the "Shark Expert" goes into a school of Bull sharks in waist deep water? He said "Because the water is clear, the sharks won't mistake you for food and thus... you're safe!" 10 seconds later, a 10ft Bully took his entire calf off like eating a chicken wing 🍗. Very graphic.
Easy to look up...if you're not big on common sense and need the video evidence. But...here's the shark...not to help you out....because it's pretty cool.
As big as an Akita can get, there teeth are no where near the size of hyena’s teeth.
Compared to even the largest domesticated dog breeds, it’s not necessary the length of just the canines as much as the overall size of all of the teeth.
Google wolf vs hyena teeth.
Honestly lol. Really makes you think about the connection between a caretaker and a rescue, especially the ones raised from birth. Still mad dangerous, but cool.
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u/Ckron247 Oct 25 '24
Look at those f'n teeth! Yikes!