I that hyenas are extremely intelligent animals despite the fact that they're depicted as dumb scavengers (like in the Lion King) smithsonianmag.com/sciencβ¦
Lions don't eat hyenas after killing them. Some biologists believe that lions do not like the taste of hyena meat while some say it is because hyenas arenβt a nutritious diet for them. animalhype.com/mammals/doβ¦
The Spotted Hyena is the only mammalian species to lack an external vaginal opening. During the mating process, the male's penis enters and exits the female's reproductive tract through her pseudo-penis rather than directly through the vagina, which is blocked by the false scrotum and testes. wikipedia.org/wiki/Spotteβ¦
Hyenas are not members of the dog or cat families. Instead, they are so unique that they have a family of their own, Hyaenidae. nationalgeographic.com/anβ¦
During his tenure, Theodore Roosevelt had a lion, a coyote, a hyena, a black bear and a zebra living on White House grounds at various times. Also, he shot 11397 creatures, including endangered animals. He also hired people, to find remains of a Mammoth, which he was successful in procuring. theguardian.com/books/202β¦
Today I learned about the two-week long lion-hyena war over disputed territory in Ethiopia during 1999, where lions killed 35 hyenas and hyenas managed to kill six lions, with the lions eventually taking over the territory. news.bbc.co.uk/2/hi/africβ¦
The strongest muscle in the human body is the masseter, our jaw muscle can bite with the force of 200 lbs from the molars. To put that into perspective, a hyena's bite force is 1100 lbs, a Silverback 1300 lbs, a saltwater croc is 3700 lbs loc.gov/everyday-mysterieβ¦
In 1999 there was a week long fight between lions and hyenas in Ethiopia, that led to the deaths of 6 lions and 30 hyenas, with the military being called in. deseret.com/platform/amp/β¦
Today I learned about The Hyena Man. He started feeding them to keep them away from livestock, only to gain their trust and be led to their den and meet some of the cubs. relay.nationalgeographic.β¦
The characters Timon and Pumbaa were only put in the movie The Lion King because Nathan Lane and Ernie Sabella audition so well together. They had originally auditioned for the hyenas, but were so funny that Timon and Pumbaa were created for them. ew.com/movies/2018/04/02/β¦
Spotted Hyenas have a bite force of about 1,000 lbs per square inch. That is enough to bite through bone. Hyenas are also known to hunt lions and have been photographed with full animal heads (including a lions) in their mouth. stillunfold.com/animal/hyβ¦
Teddy Roosevelt had a menagerie of pets while serving as president, including, but not limited to; Baron Spreckle (a hen), Jonathan Edwards (a small black bear), Josh (a badger), Tom Quartz and Slippers (cats), Bill (a laughing hyena a gift from Emperor Menelik ), and Bill the Lizard. en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Uniβ¦
Heath Ledger created a character diary for the Joker. It included stills from A Clockwork Orange, photos of hyenas, unhinged clown makeup and the word "chaos" highlighted in green. It also contained things the Joker would find funny like AIDS, landmines, and geniuses suffering brain damage. en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Jokβ¦
The aardwolf, a member of the hyena family, can weigh less than 10 kg. The carnivore primarily eats insects and larva. One aardwolf can lap up as many as 250,000 termites in a single night using its long, sticky tongue. en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Aarβ¦
Hyenas live in matriarchal clans because the females are larger and more aggressive than the males. Female hyenas also have fairly large and elongated clitorises that are called 'pseudopenises'. sitn.hms.harvard.edu/flasβ¦
Spotted hyenas are able to digest all organic components in bone, have been known to eat leather items such as boots and belts at campsites, and are thought to be responsible for eating car tyres. en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Spoβ¦
Oral Sex and Auto-Fellatio has been documented in fruit flies, spiders, brown bears, stump-tailed macaques, Tibetan macaques, wolves, goats, primates, hyenas, bats, cape ground squirrels and sheep en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Nonβ¦
In Hyena societies,females are the leaders. Making a female your ally is a powerful social move and a high-ranking female will pass on this.Hyenas greetings are mysterious and bizarre. The females use their unusually large genitals as part of elaborate ceremonies that promote group bonding. bbc.com/earth/story/20150β¦
Paleontologist William Buckland, who described Megalosaurus, found white spheres resembling ancient dog feces at Kirkdale Cave. To confirm that these were fossil hyena droppings, he let a pet hyena eat guinea pigs and then studied what the hyena threw up or pooped. strangescience.net/bucklaβ¦
In Hara, Ethiopia, Hyenas and humans have a unique relationship. At night, two Hyena clans fight outside for access to the city. The people do not fear the hyenas and give the winning clan leftover meat that they believe hyenas consume to rid the city of bad spirits. reuters.com/article/us-etβ¦
Hyenas only resemble dogs due to evolutionary convergence. They are, in fact, more closely related to lions, leopards, and common house cats en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Hyeβ¦
Hyenas are related to felines but due to Convergent Evolution, their features and behaviors more closely resemble canines. Bonus: the smallest member of hyena family is the Aardwolf which mainly eats termites. en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Hyeβ¦
Male hyenas experience deprivation, hazing and harassment by female hyenas. On the average, they live half as long as females. youtube.com/watch?v=PBCNWβ¦
Several species of African Vultures (like the most common, the White-backed Vulture) are currently critically endangered due to human farmers poisoning dead livestock in an effort to ward off mammalian predators like hyenas and lions but unintentionally decimate vulture populations as well. en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Whiβ¦
After The Lion King was released, one hyena researcher sued Disney for defamation of character for portraying hyenas as villains. en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Theβ¦
Hyenas are closer to cats than dog: "Although phylogenetically they are closer to felines and viverrids, and belong to the feliform category, hyenas are behaviourally and morphologically similar to canines" en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Hyeβ¦
Female hyenas have no vaginal opening, and give birth through the clitoris, which *ruptures* as a natural part of the process. en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Spoβ¦
After The Lion King was released a hyena biologist sued Disney for defamation of character for portraying hyenas as villains. wikipedia.com/wiki/The_Liβ¦
Two male bears from a zoo in Croatia were caught engaging in oral sex -- Oral sex is well documented in mammals as diverse as rats, fruit bats, horses, goats, dolphins, most primates, cheetahs, lions, hyenas, sheep and cattle. sciencing.com/animals-besβ¦
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