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Post by Loua » Thu Jun 10, 2010 6:34 pm

Not many people like these animals, and most movies and TV shows depict them as laughing crooks, but in reality, hyenas are intelligent and strong.
Hyenas are like Africa's trashcan. They clean up anything left by other predators, preventing the spread of diseases. But they aren't only scavengers, but are also brave hunters, killing animals such as gazelles and probably even wildebeest. They have one of Nature's strongest jaw pressure.
An interesting fact about "laughing hyenas"

"Although three species in the family Hyaenidae do not emit any vocalizations that sound anything like laughter, spotted hyaenas often make a sound called a “giggle.” This vocalization sounds very much like high-pitched, hysterical human giggling, and the fact that spotted hyaenas emit this sound has prompted people to refer to them as “laughing hyaenas.” However, when a hyaena giggles, this actually means it is quite nervous about something, not that it thinks something is amusing (see cartoons below). A spotted hyaena most often giggles in response to aggression directed at it by another individual, or when the “laughing” animal has some food that another hyaena wants. Thus the human analogue to a hyaena giggling might be a worried person saying “Please leave me alone!”."
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So, what are you thoughts on hyenas? Do you like them or do you despise them? Share here what you thin about this animals.

Other facts about hyenas (or hyeanas)
A) Why conserve hyaenas?

Hyaenas are worth conserving because they are unique and intelligent animals, but also for a number of other reasons. First, hyaenas merit protection because of the fascinating puzzles they pose for scientists interested in the biology of mammals more generally. Only by investigating the apparent exceptions to each "rule" of mammalian biology, many of which occur in members of the hyaena family, can we ever hope to understand the broader principles governing the ontogenetic and evolutionary development of mammalian morphology, physiology and behavior. Because of their unique attributes, hyaenas have already taught us many important lessons in these domains, and they will undoubtedly teach us many more in future if these wonderful animals are allowed to persist. Furthermore, hyaenas often appear to be able to withstand diseases that kill many sympatric animals, including rabies, canine distemper virus, and anthrax. This suggests that their immune function may have unique properties enabling them to withstand assaults by pathogens that induce mortality in other species. Only if hyaenas are available to study will we be able to unravel the mysteries of their immune responses. Thus even from the standpoint of enhancing human health and welfare, there are important reasons to conserve hyaenas.


Hyaenas also deserve protection because they perform valuable services in the ecosystems they inhabit, and because they are essential indicators of ecosystem health throughout much of their range. Aardwolves consume termites, which can be terribly destructive, and the three species of bone-cracking hyaenas all facilitate energy transfer and cycling of nutrients between biotic and abiotic portions of the ecosystems in which they live. Spotted hyaenas are by far the most abundant large carnivores on the African continent, and they are keystone predators in most of the ecosystems in which they occur (Mills & Hofer 1998). A keystone predator is any animal feeding at the highest trophic level in a particular ecosystem, whose removal from that ecosystem results in a cascade of deleterious events at multiple trophic levels that lead ultimately to habitat destruction. Spotted hyaenas appear to be the large carnivores in Africa with the greatest behavioral plasticity, and they are relatively easy to monitor. Because spotted hyaenas usually occur sympatrically with other members of the hyaena family and many other carnivore species, they offer a protective “umbrella,” under which, if these animals are conserved, then so too will be the other hyaenas living in the same habitats. Spotted hyaenas offer us a very conservative indicator of ecosystem health. That is, because they can survive under conditions no other large carnivore can tolerate, their disappearance from an ecosystem indicates that the habitat has become very severely degraded, perhaps irreversibly. However, in areas where these hyaenas still occur, their behavior and demography can be monitored to reveal warning indications of deleterious trends. If such trends can be identified and quantified, they can potentially be halted or reversed. This is particularly important in Africa, where loss of large carnivores would remove an important incentive for tourists to visit from abroad. Loss of revenues from tourism would thus also remove a key source of foreign exchange for many developing nations in sub-Saharan Africa.

B) Current threats to hyaena conservation

Direct human-induced mortality: Although lions have historically represented the primary source of mortality for hyaenas, this situation is rapidly changing as human population density increases near remaining wilderness areas. In many parts of Africa, humans now kill more hyenas than any other mortality source. They do this by means that are both intentional and unintentional.

Extermination efforts in retaliation for attacks on livestock: In many parts of Africa, both local tribesmen and white ranchers alike commonly retaliate, using one of the methods listed below, against hyaenas that kill or damage livestock. The extent to which this form of direct human-caused mortality also negatively affects hyaena conservation in Asia is not currently known.

Snaring: In many rural parts of Africa, local pastoralists capture hyaenas using wire nooses set at small openings in the fences forming their livestock corrals. If a hyaenas blunders into such a snare, then the tribesmen rush out and kill the captured hyaena using spears or clubs.

Poisoning: To retaliate against incidents of livestock depredation by hyaenas, people in some parts of Africa saturate the carcass of a goat or cow with fast-acting poison, and leave this out for hyaenas to feed on during the night. Such use of poison can result in the deaths, not only of large numbers of hyenas simultaneously, but also in the inadvertent deaths of other sympatric carnivores. Mass poisoning of this sort has been documented for spotted hyaenas living in eastern Africa (Holekamp & Smale 1992), but this source of mortality may also be common in other parts of Africa.

Shooting: Many ranchers keep rifles close at hand and they often use these to kill any hyaenas seen on their property.

Sport hunting: Although this is not a major source of hyaena mortality, some spotted hyaenas are shot each year in various parts of Africa by sport-hunters.

Inadvertent mortality via road kill: Hyaenas of all types are commonly killed on motor-ways. They are sometimes hit while crossing roads, but the threat vehicles pose for hyaenas is exacerbated by the fact that they often attempt to feed on carrion produced by road-kills of other species. Feeding on such carrion commonly puts them directly in the path of oncoming cars.


Inadvertent mortality resulting from war: We have no way to estimate the mortality to striped hyaenas caused inadvertently by explosives, etc, in war-torn parts of the middle east, but this may be considerable. The same is likely to be true of mortality for striped hyaenas and spotted hyaenas in conflict areas in Somalia and Ethiopia.

Inadvertent mortality as a by-product of bush-meat hunting: Members of a number of Africa tribes make their living by capturing herbivores in snare-traps, and then selling the meat harvested from these animals. They usually set their snares along the narrow trails that herbivores take through dense vegetation. As hyaenas often use these same trails, they are often captured inadvertently in snares. Some manage to escape by biting through the wire forming the snare, but others are killed when the bush-meat hunters come by to check their traps. Still other hyaenas cut themselves free but die later as the snare slowly tightens and strangles them.

Hyaenas in the pet trade: Hyaenas are sometimes captured for sale in the pet trade in Africa, but this is most problematic in Asia. Contrary to what you might suspect based on their appearance as infants, hyaenas do not make good pets. They can be highly destructive of furniture and other objects in their immediate environment, and possess teeth and jaws that can also do a great deal of damage to their owners


Left; Nigerian with his pet spotted hyaena; Right: Striped Hyaena cubs kept as pets in Syria.

Habitat loss & anthropogenic activity: Habitat loss is having a major impact on the range size of all four extant members of the hyaena family. Specifically, if the ranges of the four hyaena species are compared between the late 1990s and a few decades earlier, rather shocking range contraction can be observed as more and more habitat becomes unsuitable for hyaena habitation. The 1998 Survival Plan for the Hyaenidae shows exactly how hyaena species ranges have decreased in size in recent decades. Recent work has found that anthropogenic activity has significant effects on the behavior of spotted hyaenas (Boydston et al 2003; Kolowski et al. 2007). It may well be possible to use behavioral changes in monitored hyaena populations to anticipate and avoid population crashes, and research on this possibility is currently under way.

Ignorance and misconceptions: More myths have arisen in regard to hyaenas than perhaps any other animal in Africa (Glickman 1995). They are portrayed in a negative light in Western art and literature, they are mocked and derided by Hollywood producers, and they are feared and hated by many Africans today. This dark public image, born largely of ignorance, currently represents one of the most serious obstacles to the conservation of spotted and other hyenas (Mills & Hofer 1998). Hyaenas are killed to obtain body parts used in aphrodisiacs and medicines unlikely to have any medicinal value at all beyond a minor placebo effect. Young hyaenas are captured for sale as pets when in fact they will generally have to be given up for adoption or euthanized as soon as they reach full size. Most importantly, many people persist in their false belief that hyaenas are “bad” animals, or at least in the belief that hyaenas are not worthy of conservation efforts. Especially given that the four remaining hyaena species represent the last members of a lineage that was once large and diverse, we must attempt to put these false impressions behind us in order to enhance public enthusiasm for protecting these fascinating creatures.

C) What needs to be done to conserve hyaenas?

Education: Members of the Hyaena Specialist Group believe that major efforts must be undertaken to educate people about hyaenas in order to conserve these wonderful animals. Until people come to realize that these animals are both fascinating and unique, we will continue to face an uphill battle as we fight to conserve them.

Research: Before we will be able to effectively conserve members of the hyaena family, there are many things we need to know about their basic biology, as all but the spotted hyaena remain quite poorly understood. The biology of striped hyaenas, in particular, is largely unknown. Although we now know a great deal about the basic biology of the spotted hyaena, our understanding remains poor in regard to the limits of behavioral plasticity in this fascinating species. Most important is the need to assess whether or not this behavioral plasticity is likely to protect them from extinction.

Identification of the factors causing declines in populations of hyena prey species or species with which hyaenas compete for food (contributed by S. M. Dloniak): Among wildlife managers and also among conservaiton biologists interested in protecting species on which hyaenas feed or with which they compete for resources, there is currently a common tendency to assume that culling of hyaenas will protect the prey or competing carnivores. Whereas it is certainly true that hyaenas can and do exert direct and indirect effects on sympatric species, we are unaware of any data demonstrating that hyaenas cause extinction of, or even severe declines in, populations of competing carnivore or herbivore prey species. In some cases hyaenas are used as scapegoats for the decline or poor recruitment in populations of threatened species, when the root causes are more likely to be anthropogenic. In many such cases, management decisions to cull hyenas are not based on data identifying the factors causing declining populations of herbivores or carnivores that compete with hyaenas. Thus hyaenas are often being culled for inappropriate reasons.

D) Ongoing research germane to hyaena conservation

Hyaena biologists Hans Kruuk (1972) and Gus Mills (1990) have performed classic multi-year field studies of the basic behavioral ecology of spotted and brown hyaenas, and presented their findings in books. A substantial number of other biologists have also published highly informative papers on these species, usually based on shorter-term studies. Long-term field studies, both started in the late 1980s, are currently underway on spotted hyaenas in Kenya (based at Michigan State University, USA) and Tanzania (based at the Institute for Zoo and Wildlife Research, Germany), and one major thrust of both these projects is hyaena conservation. Furthermore, research projects are currently underway on Brown hyaenas in southwestern Africa, and on striped hyaenas in both Africa and Asia. More information about these efforts can be found on project web sites and on other pages of this web site.

E) Species-specific information regarding status and conservation


Brown hyaena
Striped hyaena
Spotted hyaena
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Hyaenas are misunderstood. Unless we change the way we see these amazing animals, we soon won't see them at all. Therefore here we debunk some common myths about members of the hyaena family.

Myth: Spotted hyaenas are hermaphrodites.

Reality: Hermaphrodites are animals that are simultaneously both male and female. Although there are many creatures in the animal kingdom that are true hermaphrodites, including some fish and many snails and worms, spotted hyaenas are definitely not among them. This myth undoubtedly arose when people noticed that hyaenas with large pendulous udders (indicating they were obviously females) could suddenly develop impressive phallic erections such that they also looked like males. Interestingly, although a female spotted hyaena has a uterus and ovaries internally, externally she does in fact appear to have “masculinized” genitalia. That is, the female’s fossil is enormously elongated to form a fully erectile pseudopenis through which she urinates, copulates, and gives birth. Furthermore, her kitten labia are folded over and filled with connective and fatty tissues to form structures that look very much like the male’s scrotal sac. These male-like external genitalia are obvious even in female spotted hyaena cubs at birth. When spotted hyaenas mate, the male inserts his erect phallus into the female’s flaccid one. The walls of the pseudopenis become relatively thin and elastic late in pregnancy, such that the female can deliver her 1 kg babies without dying in the process. Nevertheless, the posterior surface of the pseudopenis does tear when a female first gives birth, and it is ever after marked by a vertical band of pink scar tissue. Spotted hyaenas of both sexes develop phallic erections when they engage in “greeting ceremonies” with other hyaenas from whom they have been separated for a while.


Myth: It is not possible to distinguish male from female spotted hyaenas without dissecting them.

Reality: It is in fact possible to distinguish male from female spotted hyaenas when they are at least 3 months of age. Although it is virtually impossible to identify an individual’s sex based on its body size, the sex of a spotted hyaena can be distinguished based on the sexually dimorphic glans (tip) of the phallus when the phallus is erect: the glans of the female’s phallus is blunt and rather barrel-shaped whereas the male’s is pointed and has a distinct constriction immediately above the glans. Adult spotted hyaenas can also be sexed based on other morphological and behavioral cues. As adults male spotted hyaenas have distinct testes in their scrotal sacs which can be seen when a male flicks his tail, for example, to whisk away an insect. By comparison, the pseudo-scrotum of the female contains only fat and connective tissue, such that its lobes are very small in comparison to the male’s testicles. Once they start breeding, adult females usually have distinctive teats on the posterior belly, just inside the hind limbs, and these are often very easy to see. Adults can also be sexed based on their body shape; the belly of the adult male curves up in front of his hind limbs when viewed from the side whereas the belly of the adult female has no such upward curvature. Instead, the female often develops something of a ‘paunch’ where her teats protrude such that, if anything, the curvature of her posterior belly is downward. Finally, many of the behaviors exhibited by adult spotted hyaenas is decidedly sexually dimorphic. That is, males tend to act nervous when they are interacting with females (see figure below), and can often be seen tentatively stretching their fore and hind limbs over the face of a dozing female to present their ventral surface and genital region to the female for inspection. Males also can be observed pawing the ground near a sleepy female, or bowing before her and then rubbing their faces on their forelegs as they repeatedly approach and then nervously back away from the female. Male spotted hyaenas mount females from behind when mating, as in other carnivores. In fact, even sexual play-mounting during infancy is usually only exhibited by male cubs.

Myth: Hyaenas only eat carrion.

Reality: Brown and striped hyaenas do eat a fair amount of carrion but they supplement this with small vertebrate prey they catch themselves, as well as fruits and invertebrates. Aardwolves are diminutive, delicate hyaenas that feed exclusively on ants and termites. Although most people imagine spotted hyaenas to be skulking scavengers who feed on the scraps left by more glamorous predators like lions and leopards, they are in fact excellent hunters that feed mainly on large ungulates they kill themselves. An adult spotted hyaena weighs only about 60 kg yet, without help from its group-mates, it can bring down antelope weighing over three times that much, and working together with other hyaenas, it can kill ungulates as large as giraffe and African Cape buffalo. Spotted hyaenas do not use stealth when hunting as do most large felids; instead these hyaenas are endurance hunters who chase the selected prey animal over long distances until the prey is winded; then the hyaenas close in for the kill. Like most members of the dog family, spotted hyaenas kill their prey by disemboweling rather than with a cat-like “killing bite.”


Myth: Hyaenas often drive other large predators from their prey.

Reality: At 35 kg and 45 kg, respectively, striped and brown hyaenas are too small to engage in contests over food with other large carnivores. Aardwolves do not compete for food with other large carnivores because aardwolves eat only insects. Although spotted hyaenas do sometimes steal food from smaller predators like cheetah and wild dogs, the more common scenario in most areas where they have been studied is for spotted hyaenas themselves to kill a large ungulate and then have lions steal it from them.



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Myth: Hyaenas are closely related to dogs.

Reality: Although hyaenas look rather dog-like, they are more closely related to cats than to dogs, and their closest living relatives are mongooses and the fossa, a mongoose-like carnivore found only in Madagascar.

Myth: Hyaenas make good pets.

Reality: Although a few people in Africa and Asia find very young hyaenas in nature and raise them as pets, these animals generally appear to be extremely unhappy as “domestic companions” as adults, and must often be kept muzzled at all times so that they do not harm people or property. A muzzle prevents the hyaena from being able to groom itself properly. As spotted hyaenas need several years of practice to become proficient hunters, and as they are deprived of this practice when reared as pets, it is effectively a death sentence for a captive-reared hyaena to be released into the wild. In addition, pet hyaenas cannot be released for fear that they might transfer new pathogens from captive environments into the wild. Upon reaching adulthood, many "pet" hyaenas must therefore be euthanized.


A pet hyena in Nigeria. Note the heavy rope muzzle.

Myth: Hyaenas commonly prey on livestock.

Reality: The favorite food of aardwolves is insects, especially termites which they help to control. Although many people apparently believe that aardwolves prey on young sheep, in reality they do not kill livestock as their digestive system is specialized for coping with insect prey rather than meat or bone, and most of their teeth have been reduced to mere pegs over evolutionary time. Rather than medium- or large-sized mammalian prey, brown and striped hyaenas prefer to dine on carrion, wild fruits, insects and eggs. Small livestock, particularly young animals, can be protected from brown hyaenas and jackals at night by being placed in bush enclosures. Of the four extant members of the hyaena family, only the spotted hyaena is a potential predator on livestock. In many parts of Africa, attacks on sheep, goats and cattle are most frequent during rainy periods when wild prey are widely dispersed away from water holes (e.g., Kolowski et al. 2006). Nevertheless, in most studied populations of spotted hyaenas, livestock seldom occur in the diet of these animals, as indicated by the occurrence of livestock hairs in fecal samples, so they clearly prefer wild ungulates to domestic ones. Furthermore, as with brown hyaenas, spotted hyaenas can be deterred from attacking livestock by herding domestic animals at night into sturdy corrals.

Myth: Spotted hyaenas have magical powers, and witches ride on their backs.

Reality: Although African tribal folklore abounds with myths of this sort, none of the extant hyaenas have any magical powers, nor are any of their body parts effective as aphrodisiacs.


HYAENAS ARE INTERESTING ANIMALS THAT PERFORM ESSENTIAL FUNCTIONS IN THE ECOSYSTEMS IN WHICH THEY LIVE. HYAENAS CAN OFTEN LIVE IN HARMONY WITH PEOPLE, IF WE GIVE THEM A CHANCE.
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Post by Atropine » Fri Jun 11, 2010 9:53 am

I love hyenas, and this certainly made interesting reading.^^ It annoys me when people give hyenas the "evil" stereotype; it's a shame that the media has given that brand to these animals.

My favourite species of hyena is the brown hyena. (:
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Post by Loua » Fri Jun 11, 2010 1:16 pm

My favorite has to be the Spotted hyena and the Aardwolf :)
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Re: Hyenas!!!

Post by Rustlesky » Fri Jun 11, 2010 4:42 pm

I really like hyenas! They are cool animals but I also like other animals! I like wolves turtles owls bunnies and CATS (~^.^~) =^.^= . Sorry thats what I put when I say cats. Anyway hyenas are cool!
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Post by AutumnSolace » Sat Jun 12, 2010 7:26 am

My favorites have to be the Aardwolf and the Spotted Hyena. And thanks for sharing facts about them Loua, they're very helpful and I managed to learn more about them. :D
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Post by paperpaws » Sat Jun 12, 2010 12:24 pm

Hyenas are pretty interesting creatures, with an unusual anatomy. My favourite is the Spotted Hyena.

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Post by Alpha Female » Sat Jun 12, 2010 4:41 pm

Hyena's are very interesting animals. I have learned quite a lot about them by reading this and doing my own research. My favorite hyena is the striped hyena. Thanks for sharing.
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Post by Crocotto » Sat Jun 19, 2010 11:48 am

It's nice to see their are wolf fans out there who don't hate hyenas. :)
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Post by -+Kiba+- » Thu Jul 01, 2010 5:32 pm

I find your interest in Hyenas refreshing! I was so happy when I saw this topic, because just today I discovered that they are in the sub-family of cat-like creatures! Who knew? :D

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ME! lol

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Post by portia » Tue Jul 13, 2010 6:48 am

Yeah, hyenas are awesome, it's such a shame they get a bad wrap because they are really amazing animals. I already knew that they were cool but after I had the wonderful experience of seeing one in the wild while I was in South Africa that was emphasised and I saw their true beauty
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Post by Half Moon » Wed Jul 14, 2010 10:24 am

I like hyenas, but my friend thinks they are ugly and stupid.
She saw them in a Zoo once and said they walk weird.
I DON'T agree with her though, I love them. :D
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Post by Britska » Wed Jul 14, 2010 10:25 am

The poor misunderstood hyenas.. I love hyenas, they have a interesting life style.

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Post by WhiteFangheart » Mon Jul 19, 2010 10:52 am

Lol! Hyenas I Love Them!LionKingHyenas, There Ok I'm Not Saying That I Hate Them Or A Dislike Them, I'm Saying There Funny And Weird At The Same Time! (Lol)*Falls Out Chair Laughing Hard*O.o Raise Your Hand If You Like The Movie~~~~~~~~~~~~TheLionKing*Raises Hand Higher Then Anyone Else*Me Like Hyenas And Other Animals In The Wild Kingdom.=) Bye-Bye Guys Vote If You Like Hyenas Or Wolves?You Don't Have To If You Don't Want To Just Saying!SeeYouLaterPeeps :mrgreen:
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Re: Hyenas!!!

Post by baltosangel » Mon Aug 09, 2010 8:27 pm

Hyena's are one of my top favorite animals. If I could ever go to Africa, I would love to see one. My favorite hyena is the spotted. I really am disappointed by the way so many people treat hyena's. I read somewhere in a book that when most people see hyena's they throw sticks at them. (at least that's the bit i remember reading)
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