Female hyenas show their dominant nature

http://www.earth-touch.com Watch the fascinating animal interactions amongst a group of female hyenas. Hyena clans are matriarchal by nature -- alpha females rule & males rank last.

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[EmoberryProductions]

If a lady gaga was an animal, it should be a hyena.

[earthtouch]

@EmoberryProductions Why so mean to the Hyena? :)

[earthtouch]

@durgaaa @EbonDrake | No apology necessary :) Thanks for backing me up @EbonDrake although @durgaa does put forward a very interesting point about their Taxonomy. If you look at a Hyaena you could easily be forgiven into thinking it is a sort of dog...well it is not. @Durgaa is right, they sit within the Feliformia so are more closely related to cats...although i think are more closely related to mustelids (like weasels)...I may need correcting there though :)

[earthtouch]

Just to clear a little something up...Female Spotted hyenas don't actually have a true penis...It is a pseudopenis made from a greatly enlarged clitoris.

Interestingly, spotted hyena have one of the most complex mammalian social systems (easily on a par with elephants) and it is this which appears to have driven the evolution of such a seemingly strange piece of anatomy.

Don't forget the females also have to give birth through the pseudopenis....Owch!

[goenigoegoe83]

So what I'm getting after reading the comments is that people hate on hyena's because of the Lion King? Hahahaha..DERP!

[fmehe]

very very very

[SaberWingDragon]

@Urhoboman5 It really is, but I had no other way to get my point across, as most people learned about Lions and Hyenas only from the Lion King. It's a shame many people don't know the true facts about these animals.

haha why would that offend me xD So long as you can start up a civil conversation without being all "YOU STUPID, DATS NOT HOWE IT WORKS" and then state something so far off the mark even the comment doesn't want to post, I'm fine with it xD

Creates a nice conversation, you know?

[SaberWingDragon]

@Urhoboman5 lol I know that xD

However, Lions have also been known to kill hyenas for nothing more than sport, and leave the carcass. As far as I know, hyenas don't leave the carcass, but devour it, even if it is a lone cub.

It really is, they're both important to the ecosystem and have different roles in existence. Thing is, Hyenas do alot and are under appreciated, and lions don't do much and are over appreciated. Thus the war began...

[Urhoboman5]

@Shadowmaster888

No!!!

[Urhoboman5]

@SaberWingDragon

Also I believe that anything along the lines of one is a noble animal while the other is a mangy poacher(regardless of which side your on) is silly.

Both animals are important for the ecosystem, both live harsh lives and both should be respected for putting up with shit that most of us humans would cringe at.

I'm okay with both. But I like Lions more. "Panthera Ultimate" playlist.

I hope I didn't offend. :-)

Peace.

[Urhoboman5]

@SaberWingDragon

Just so you know. Apparently animals are more complex than we think they are.

According to some research lions kill hyenas because of territory, revenge, competition for food, hyenas have been known to kill and eat lion cubs. And guess what hyenas are no different, they would kill a lone lion or lion cub at the drop of a hat for similar reasons.

Personally I think the Hyena vs lion thing is over hyped by us humans. And our hyper emoting of the natural world.

[BOOM7STAR]

Hyenas eat anything, yet teeth remain pearly white damn.