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It turns out, through a lot of careful research done by Steve Glickman, Christine Drey and others. That it's androstenedione. What is essentially a pro hormone to testosterone? It's androstenedione at very high levels that's produced in female hyenas that creates this enlargement of their genitalia.
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it turns out that in these spotted hyenas the females are dominant so after a kill the females will eat then their young will eat and then the male hyenas will eat as well when the female hyena gives birth she gives birth not through the vaginal Canal that we're accustomed to seeing but through a very enlarged clitoris like phus although it's not a phus it's a clitoris and it literally splits open so the many fetuses di during the course of hyena development and birth the baby hyena actually comes through the the tissue and it's it's a very traumatic birth it was a mystery as to how the the female hyenas have this we'll call it masculinization but it's really a androgenization of the periphery of the genitalia and it turns out through a lot of careful research done by Steve Glickman Christine Dre uh and and others that it's interestin diione what is essentially a pror hormone to testosterone
at very high levels that's produced in female hyenas that creates this enlargement of their genitalia