“In hyenas, the clitoris carries urine, enables copulation, and serves as a birth canal. Yet it looks precisely like a male penis. Perhaps this is what hyenas are laughing about.”
George C Kent, Robert Carr
Comparative Anatomy of the Vertebrates
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