Ancient naturalists believed the hyena to be a hermaphrodite on account of the female’s pudenda, which are the most sexually ambiguous of any known mammal’s. Not only does the female spotted hyena have an eight-inch clitoris that’s shaped and positioned exactly like the male’s penis but she also gets erections. Both female and male spotted hyenas display and inspect one another’s sexual tumescence during ‘greeting ceremonies’. Crowning all this female virility is what appears to be a prominent pair of furry testicles.
