Writer's Block: Nature Gone Wild

[keaalu]

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...methinks the writer of the question needs to study moar, and actually, y'know, get the facts they're misquoting CORRECT before they post them to a significant proportion of the internets. :P

Hyaena female does not have a "penis". She has a pseudo-penis, which is something completely different, and as much to do with dominance displays as it is sex.

And I knew this even BEFORE meeting those furries I know. *omg shock*

Edit: lol, people are correcting the person who posted the "writer's block" question on his/her ElJay.

Comments

[sober-irish-guy.livejournal.com]

Yeah. female hyenas only appear to have penii, since the high testosterone levels made scientists think they were hermaphrodites for quite some time. We now know better, of course.

[keaalu.livejournal.com]

This. They have a "phallus", true, but not a PENIS. And they give birth through it. (Ow) I particularly want to know who studied fieldmice and determined they only sleep facing northwest. Enquiring minds desire proof!

[sober-irish-guy.livejournal.com]

They face the rising/setting sun? Migrating birds have been observed to "face" the direction they plan to travel, I think turtles have been shown to swim by magnetic fields (place them in a controlled magnet and you can make them turn). More an observation than a study I guess.

[jill-dragon.livejournal.com]

What's the strangest things I know about the animal kingdom? Two words: Penis Fencing. It's in regards to nudibranch (sea slug) reproduction.

Actually that's only the first one I can think of off the top of my head; I'm sure there are many more if I go back through my course notes. Yeah, my Invertebrate Zoology class was verrrying interesting. 0_o

And plants too, you wouldn't _believe_ some of the kinky things they get up to. ;)