How do wild animal periods work?

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Like imagine a Giselle bleeding out from their period in the wild, wouldn’t it be counterproductive to hide from predators? A lion can sniff blood from miles away so I imagine they’d have some sort of different reproductive method of expelling the uterine lining, or would they just not do it at all?

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Most mammals go into heat, but don’t have “periods” like humans do.

Wild mammals like cats (lions, tigers) will have faint bleeding, which will actually attract male cats for breeding, as menstrual blood smells much different than the blood of prey. The male cats know the smell and will flock to a female in heat to attempt to mate with them, they wouldn’t mistake that as prey or anything.

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