• AFK BRB Chocolate@lemmy.worldEnglish
    276·
    7 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.

      • GrymEdm@lemmy.worldEnglish
        1513·
        7 months 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

          • DragonTypeWyvern@literature.cafeEnglish
            232·
            7 months ago

            Here’s another:

            I form the light, and create darkness: I make peace, and create evil: I the LORD do all these things.

            Isiah 45:7

            In the land of intellectual adulting, however, people who know their history know the cult of YHWY, originally a single god from what was the Canaanite pantheon, clear evidence of which is still present in even the Old Testament, subsumed the mythological roles of protector and catastrophe, hero and villain, creator and destroyer in its path to monotheism.

            • I Cast Fist@programming.devEnglish
              8·
              7 months ago

              From what i’ve saw from videos on religious archaeology, the “definitive” yaweh is an amalgamation of 2 or 3 gods into one, which explains why his personality varies wildly from text to text. Vengeful asshole here, incompetent god of war against iron chariots, all loving elsewhere

          • Muscar@discuss.onlineEnglish
            447·
            7 months ago

            And the polar opposite of that is anyone over 12 years old using “fire” like you’ve done. Please fucking stop.

      • IninewCrow@lemmy.caEnglish
        37·
        7 months ago

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

        We’re just one of the thousands of world saves he placed on a memory card and threw into the closet and forgot about.

        • henfredemars@infosec.pubEnglish
          261·
          7 months ago

          To be fair, if you look at the pale blue dot imagery, it really captures how difficult it would be to find us looking down in the universal sandbox. We might have simply been overlooked.

          • IninewCrow@lemmy.caEnglish
            16·
            7 months ago

            Overlooked? … in that scenario, we’re just an unknown accident … it’s like that tiny piece of mold at the bottom of the sink drain

      • OsrsNeedsF2P@lemmy.mlEnglish
        26·
        7 months ago

        https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Traumatic_insemination

        Yea wth

        The process is detrimental to the female’s health. It creates an open wound which impairs the female until it heals, and is susceptible to infection. The injection of sperm and ejaculatory fluids into the hemocoel can also trigger an immune reaction in the female. Bed bugs, which reproduce solely by traumatic insemination, have evolved a pair of sperm-receptacles, known as the spermalege. It has been suggested that the spermalege reduces the direct damage to the female bed bug during traumatic insemination

        Yep I’m out before one of you furries makes a cartoon out of this.

  • Zerush@lemmy.mlEnglish
    38·
    7 months ago

    To understand it better how is the aspect of the clitoris of a female Hyena, as said, they give birth through a penis. Certainly hardcore.

    • flora_explora@beehaw.orgEnglish
      3·
      7 months 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.