>>56680235Probably due to their social structure, the rest of the Hyenas are solitary or live in pairs with both genders being the same size or the male slightly more corpulent. And they are more elusive, not staying in open fields and avoiding other predators.
On the other hand, the spotted hyena had to evolve at the same time with lions, but being smaller in size it opted for numbers over strength, perhaps for this reason the larger female with a greater number of offspring began to have a more important role, over generations testosterone increased in this gender causing great changes, females larger than males, more aggressive, both to protect their offspring and to compete against lions, but it had the secondary effect of giving masculine characteristics to their clitoris, making copulation very difficult, although on the one hand they are the only females that are rape-proof, a male can only mate when a female wants him, imagine trying to sheating a very thin sword in its sheath that is just as thin.
Another detail of their evolution is that, as the females are hunters and the males are nannies, the offspring spend long periods of fasting. To compensate, the mother is highly productive with her prey, capable of crushing bones to metabolize them and create one of the most nutritious milks in the world.
