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© 2014 AFPZoo abandons bid to mate hyena 'couple' as both male
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CraigHicks
How do the hyenas identify another hyenas sex? Smell?
nandakandamanda
How much did this whole year program(me) cost, I wonder?
zurcronium
Too bad for the two male hyenas but I feel the most sorry for the spouses of the zookeepers.
serendipitous
Then the couple should be allowed to adopt a baby hyena.....
SenseNotSoCommon
Or not?
almostshat
What a cock-up
wtfjapan
WilliB
Nature is seriously discriminatory. I mean what happened to inclusive and and diversity and all that?
Mick_Hardwick
A psuedo scrotum... Mmm!
turbotsat
Read next-to-last paragraph of Farmboy's link. Females have pseudo scrotum and penis. Even the zoologist authoring the article was fooled. At first thought the female under examination was male based on the apparent male genitalia (including feeling the pseudo scrotum), then several minutes noticed the nipples were larger than males' ever get, so changed estimate to pregnant female, based on the nipples.
HonestDictator
Nature is a strange beast... I mean c'mon, some mammals still lay eggs!
Kobuta Chan
Can't they see the balls? I watched Africa wild animals' document TV show and I can see clearly male Hyenas have big balls like our domestic dogs have. They are fighting each other so they are not gay Hyenas too. Their balls must be taken out by someone if they couldn't found balls on both Hyenas.
Serrano
@Farmboy
Thanks for the informative link, but that's better after lunch...
lucabrasi
Couldn't they just adopt?
overchan
I have always know that hyenas have both sexual organs.
nandakandamanda
If the difficulty is so well-known, SK should have used the word 'maybe'.
A Realist
"The Maruyama Zoo in Sapporo said in a statement this week that it was given the animals as a “male and female couple” in October 2010 from a zoo in the South Korean twin city of Daejon."
The South Koreans said they were male and female. Make a mark on the calendar; first time South Korea has ever made a mistake.
nath
Nature's a mad scientist...
Dara Danh
@scipantheist:
sensei258
They couldn't reproduce, but they are sharing a meaningful committed relationship and are planning to marry.
nath
Um, I can understand not being able to determine the gender of a reptile or a bird, but a mammal?