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Published online 19 October 1999 | Nature | doi:10.1038/news991021-7
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Sex and the spotted hyena
Thefemale spotted hyena (Crocuta crocuta) is well known, among connoisseurs of this sort of thing, to have among the most 'masculinized' external genitalia of any known female mammal. Typically, a female has a large, erectile penis-like clitoris through which she gives birth, urinates and copulates.
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