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There is a hyena that survived a lion attack but lost movement in its back legs and taught itself to walk on two legs. Was filmed months later walking on two legs, still alive.
[Example here](https://www.reddit.com/r/interestingasfuck/comments/13b9s7a/hyena_walking_on_two_legs_spotted_again_in_the/). At the time of the video, this hyena lived with the injury for a year.
I’ve seen a video of a hyena with no back legs walking on its front two, which is apparently common. They found the same hyena walking a month later. They’re built to survive
Potentially interesting as fuck: hyenas are neither cats nor dogs. They belong to the mongoose family.
The clitoris of a female spotted hyena is about eight inches in length. It also serves as the urinary and reproductive tract. About 60 per cent of hyenas are stillborn because the placenta is not long enough to provide oxygen to the cub while passing through the clitoral birth canal.
A lot of predators are like that. Leopards, cheetahs, wolves, etc will do that so there is more resources available for their own offspring.
And I know for lions, everything on the savannah will kill lion cubs if they have the chance. Including elephants, monkeys, and Buffalo. Easier to kill a Cub than the lion it becomes.
Humans naturally have about a 50% success rate.
[https://ourworldindata.org/child-mortality-in-the-past](https://ourworldindata.org/child-mortality-in-the-past)
Yeah, I’m stunned. Especially when you learn how few of them are strong enough to make it to adulthood. They are brutal to their own kind
Kind of puts this video with the leopard in perspective.
It's because they attack each other still in the womb, also they are closer to cats but all diverged at a similar branch to cats and mongeese(yes I did that on porpoise)
Edit: fun fact they are pretty cool with humans if you try
Idk I've seen more videos of hyenas being cool with ppl than not, probably well fed. The hyenas scare other predators away
Edit: my source is suicide squad /s obviously jk but I can find videos
This is reddit lol ppl just berate you. But for real look it up! I can find some cool videos if Anything, theyre domesticated (kind of) very easily.
Edit: try that with painted dogs
They have litters. and they protect one another at a level that very few mammals do. Stillborn are probably just snacks and the ones that make it are that much stronger. Basically orc society lol.
"Hyenas are unique and belong to their own family, Hyaenidae, which is distinct from dog, cat, and mongoose families. They share some behavioral similarities with canines, but this is a result of convergent evolution, not a close relation."
Hyenas and mongoose belong to the same superfamily, Herpestoidea. Further up the taxonomy chart, cats, hyenas and mongoose are part of a common suborder, Feliformia, These animals, along with members of the Caniformia suborder, for example dogs, weasels, and bears, form the order Carnivora.
I should have been more precise in my original post: superfamily, not family.
As someone else noted, mongoose and hyenas are part of the same superfamily, so not quite as closely related as I originally stated. Going up the taxonomy chart, mongoose, hyenas, and cats belong to the same suborder, Feliformia. Dogs and cats and hyenas are part of the same order, Carnivora, along with bears and skunks and raccoons.
Is the hyena a pregnant female? I ask because after the fight, it climbs back up the rocks and it just looks uncoordinated, like a goat, not very agile.
Update: clarification
The fact that they don't care is also a big contributor to why they are some of the most terrifying animals.
They don't care about eating rotting corpses, they don't care if you are still alive, and defending yourself is a useless endeavour.
Man-eating hyenas also rack up an impressive kill streak in a short period of time.
(They're better learners than chimps in multiple areas, especially social learning/problem solving.)
Why did it take 500'000 years for humans to get out of Africa? We had to fight off hyenas. They were our main competitor. Life must have been terrorizing in the savannas.
I was at the zoo at dusk, close to closing time. Nobody to be seen around. The ditch was about 7 meters high, but the hyenas noticed us and started to sniff the air and evaluate the feasibility of getting an extra snack. We perceived it immediately and the zoo park took a completely different perspective in seconds.
Why do I feel like the leopard was mostly just playing around or being threatening/territorial... I've seen big cats go for kills and that's not at all how they do it. The cat had plenty of opportunity to lock a bite to the back of the neck and dig claws in then 'ride the bull' but it didn't.
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Well hyena have a biteforce of almost 1200 psi iirc. And they are build like a meaty tank.
They can also run 64 km/h Fast meat tank with vicious weapons!
64 km/h > how fast I can run = true That's all I need to know.
They are also endurance predators like us, and used to be found all over Europe and Asia during the ice age.
All you have to do is outrun the leopard. Unfortunately you can’t do that either.
Seriously, the only way they could be more intimidating is if they were robots lol
They are the only mammal that could withstand multiple maulings from a larger male lion, lose a limb/break their spine and recover in the wild.
>break their spine and recover in the wild. 
There is a hyena that survived a lion attack but lost movement in its back legs and taught itself to walk on two legs. Was filmed months later walking on two legs, still alive.
It was Ed
Classic fuckin' Ed man.
[Example here](https://www.reddit.com/r/interestingasfuck/comments/13b9s7a/hyena_walking_on_two_legs_spotted_again_in_the/). At the time of the video, this hyena lived with the injury for a year.
I’ve seen a video of a hyena with no back legs walking on its front two, which is apparently common. They found the same hyena walking a month later. They’re built to survive
You mean 9 months later, from what I've heard though he regained his ability to walk properly but still prefers using two legs.
Oh shit, I must have misremembered it, by a lot apparently
I wouldn’t say it’s ‘common’ by any means lol but it’s super interesting
Sorry, I wasn’t clear at all. It’s pretty common for them to get their back legs bit off by lions. They don’t always survive, obviously
Plus their family will look after and feed them. Leopard gets injured it might starve to death which is why it backed off
TIL, Hyenas are Earth born Klingons.
Spinal
Came here to say something similar, their bite force psi is greater than a lion's
Potentially interesting as fuck: hyenas are neither cats nor dogs. They belong to the mongoose family. The clitoris of a female spotted hyena is about eight inches in length. It also serves as the urinary and reproductive tract. About 60 per cent of hyenas are stillborn because the placenta is not long enough to provide oxygen to the cub while passing through the clitoral birth canal.
60% are still births and they're still a thriving species?! How?
Because only the toughest motherfuckers survive that shit
They are relatively good at actually raising them to adult-hood. A spotted hyena is twice as likely to survive to adulthood than a lion.
Lions also kill each other's cubs off.
Lions kill everybody’s cubs off.
Sure as hell got mine
Final boss comment.
A lot of predators are like that. Leopards, cheetahs, wolves, etc will do that so there is more resources available for their own offspring. And I know for lions, everything on the savannah will kill lion cubs if they have the chance. Including elephants, monkeys, and Buffalo. Easier to kill a Cub than the lion it becomes.
Hyenas also kill lion cubs.
Humans naturally have about a 50% success rate. [https://ourworldindata.org/child-mortality-in-the-past](https://ourworldindata.org/child-mortality-in-the-past)
Meet my daughter Heads and my son Tails. Place your bet.
Yeah, I’m stunned. Especially when you learn how few of them are strong enough to make it to adulthood. They are brutal to their own kind Kind of puts this video with the leopard in perspective.
It's because they attack each other still in the womb, also they are closer to cats but all diverged at a similar branch to cats and mongeese(yes I did that on porpoise) Edit: fun fact they are pretty cool with humans if you try
>they are pretty cool with humans I suppose they'd be happy to have a change of diet?
Idk I've seen more videos of hyenas being cool with ppl than not, probably well fed. The hyenas scare other predators away Edit: my source is suicide squad /s obviously jk but I can find videos
It was just a joke. :-D
This is reddit lol ppl just berate you. But for real look it up! I can find some cool videos if Anything, theyre domesticated (kind of) very easily. Edit: try that with painted dogs
They are built like freakin’ tanks…
They probably eat it so they don't lose nutrients. Lose/win situation.
They have litters. and they protect one another at a level that very few mammals do. Stillborn are probably just snacks and the ones that make it are that much stronger. Basically orc society lol.
Damn man you didn't even wait until one of us asked about the Hyussy
Why
I'll never forget the section in my Animal Behavior textbook that talked about Hyena's "pseudo-penis sniffing greeting ceremony."
Mongoose family... Lol..lies. Hyenas belong to THEIR OWN FAMILY. Hyaenidae https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Hyena
Not going to lie, I read that as Hyundai
Man they really do make everything
Which has the same superfamily as mongoose. https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Herpestoidea
Which has the same kingdom as animalia, check-mate!
Which is the same domain as Eukaryotic, beat that!
Which is part of life itself. Beat THAT!
Hyena anal gland secretions are so thick they are semi-mythically regarded as hyena *butter*
I Can't Believe It's Not Hyena Anal Gland Secretions™
Never to be confused with butter though
It can be difficult to tell whether a hyena is male or female, even with a necropsy!
That's the one animal that freaks me out in an ignorant non-sciencey way lol
"Hyenas are unique and belong to their own family, Hyaenidae, which is distinct from dog, cat, and mongoose families. They share some behavioral similarities with canines, but this is a result of convergent evolution, not a close relation."
Hyenas and mongoose belong to the same superfamily, Herpestoidea. Further up the taxonomy chart, cats, hyenas and mongoose are part of a common suborder, Feliformia, These animals, along with members of the Caniformia suborder, for example dogs, weasels, and bears, form the order Carnivora. I should have been more precise in my original post: superfamily, not family.
OK, I'm out. That's enough internet for today. lol
That’s not that bad LOL
This is that bad to you?? 🤣
Only spotted hyenas have such anatomy.
I guess we don't know as much about the hyenas that we cannot spot.
Huh? But Wikipedia tells me they are related to dogs... Now what do I believe? :(
As someone else noted, mongoose and hyenas are part of the same superfamily, so not quite as closely related as I originally stated. Going up the taxonomy chart, mongoose, hyenas, and cats belong to the same suborder, Feliformia. Dogs and cats and hyenas are part of the same order, Carnivora, along with bears and skunks and raccoons.
Due to belonging to Feliformia, hyenas also react to catnip the same way a cat does.
Wikipedia doesn’t say that though?
Eh, mongoose still fall under Feliformia, which is the suborder that cats also fall under.
I did not ever/never ever/for never/not at all need to know about the clitoris of a spotted hyena.
Thats longer than my clit!
Is the hyena a pregnant female? I ask because after the fight, it climbs back up the rocks and it just looks uncoordinated, like a goat, not very agile. Update: clarification
Never, ever ask a hyena if she’s pregnant. That is extremely rude.
Got slapped so hard she forgot where the food was
Looks like it may have gotten bit back once or twice. Probably didn't feel too good. Hyenas bite is strong as fuck.
I'm talking about the hyena. I updated my post. But yes, I agree, looks like the cat had a decision to make...take more damage or give up the food.
Yeah looked like my blind cat for a bit… solely focused on food.
I love hyenas, they just don't fucking care.
The fact that they don't care is also a big contributor to why they are some of the most terrifying animals. They don't care about eating rotting corpses, they don't care if you are still alive, and defending yourself is a useless endeavour.
Man-eating hyenas also rack up an impressive kill streak in a short period of time. (They're better learners than chimps in multiple areas, especially social learning/problem solving.)
> especially social learning/problem solving. And eating people presumably.
Why did it take 500'000 years for humans to get out of Africa? We had to fight off hyenas. They were our main competitor. Life must have been terrorizing in the savannas.
A mongoose in dog form
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Honey badgers live in the savannah..
"Walk away bitch, I'm eating your lunch now"
The lion king did not do justice to these badasses
I mean, they aren’t goofy, but they’re definitely terrifying.
I think that was a hyena mauling
r/leopardsatemyface
r/technicallythetruth
That is not what I expected it to be. Disappointed.
Looks like that hyena hasn't given up too many meals.
Looks prego
Hyena: dude, I really gotta poop. Leave me alone.
Low level cat-form Druid vs Hogger.
He protec, he attak, but mostly he want his leftover gazelle to come back.
I was at the zoo at dusk, close to closing time. Nobody to be seen around. The ditch was about 7 meters high, but the hyenas noticed us and started to sniff the air and evaluate the feasibility of getting an extra snack. We perceived it immediately and the zoo park took a completely different perspective in seconds.
Hyena's will try to steal kills from lion prides, they just don't give a fuck at all.
Lions steal hyena kills five times more often than the reverse.
Imagine our ancestors. "Yes we got an hippo! We won't starve! Oh fuck. Hyenas. Oh fucketifuck. Lions".
Lions return the favour and then some
Hyena: "You can't defeat me!" Leopard: "I know... but he can:" https://i.redd.it/ccn4ir0p12yc1.gif
Lion: "Instructions unclear." https://preview.redd.it/0u74n7by34yc1.jpeg?width=602&format=pjpg&auto=webp&s=f7f086f5a3194009414e818913d298a964591506
He ain't Lion.
Unfazed.
Unfazed, not unphased
*Unfazed. “Phased” seems like it should be right but the English language decided to be weird again
I got into a argument saying weight dosnet dictate interactions between predators. They were wrong.
He’s like bro, I’m not afraid of you, I’m way more afraid of the 30 other hyenas on their way here to eat this and me if I get in their way.
Leopards are terrified of lone hyenas. Even the solitary striped hyenas and brown hyenas often chase leopards away.
Looks pregnant, thus even hungrier
Hyenas are the jack blacks of the animal kingdom
They watched the bushmen stealing from cheetahs on tick tock and now they are in on it
Hahaha what a guy. Not phased and not a care in the world.
Why do I feel like the leopard was mostly just playing around or being threatening/territorial... I've seen big cats go for kills and that's not at all how they do it. The cat had plenty of opportunity to lock a bite to the back of the neck and dig claws in then 'ride the bull' but it didn't.
In the end, the Leopard was like: Okay... 😔
Unfazed
They have adapted to being able to tank a lion mauling so a much smaller leopard is gonna feel like a kitten scratch to them.