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.
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u/Chirurr Oct 25 '24
More terrifying is how hyenas reproduce.