After two animal handlers leave a tranquilized female hyena, they enter and acquire her DNA.

A male spotted hyena attempted to mate with a female hyena which succeeded in driving him off.

Also, unlike other hyenas, the female spotted hyena's external genitalia closely resembles that of the male.

Unlike aardwolves, female brown hyenas mate with nomadic males or the dominant male member of their own clan.

Sexual mimicry can have adverse reproductive costs, for example the female spotted hyena has to copulate and give birth through her long peniform clitoris.

The Hyenas - a pair of female hyenas who often act as Reg's bodyguards.

Unusually among hyaenids, and mammals in general, the female spotted hyena is considerably larger than the male.