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The miracle of childbirth (mander.xyz)
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[–] [email protected] 4 points 6 months ago (3 children)

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

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

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[–] [email protected] 1 points 6 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.

https://www.livescience.com/animals/bats/bats-with-weirdly-giant-penis-have-sex-for-up-to-12-hours-in-a-way-never-seen-in-mammals-before

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.

[–] [email protected] 1 points 6 months ago

Because they didn't die like that.

[–] [email protected] 4 points 6 months ago

Majority of male hyenas had a docking fetish, and evolution facilitated their needs.