Do you respect hyenas?

ClubSilencio
ClubSilencio Posts: 2,983 Member
edited November 17 in Chit-Chat
Why do hyenas get such a bad rap?

Is it because they eat their prey starting at the butt? You do what you gotta do to survive in the wild.

I've never seen so much disdain for an animal.

Why are there no sports teams named after hyenas? There are snakes, birds, cats, but never the hyena. Bulldogs? Dude, a bulldog is the equivalent of your tubby uncle in a post-buffet coma. That's not the spirit you wanna channel on the field, in my opinion.

Now, a hyena... A HYENA will wreck your *kitten*. BADLY. Lol.

And such cuties to boot!

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  • LittleLionHeart1
    LittleLionHeart1 Posts: 3,655 Member
    Yes. But I always root for the lion to escape.
    What about baboons? They have funny looking a$$es. But they probably think my @$$ looks funny too. :)
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  • LittleLionHeart1
    LittleLionHeart1 Posts: 3,655 Member
    I like pushing grandpas lawn mowing machine so his hyena don't get disturbed.
    https://youtu.be/JyJBz7Z2EWE
  • Just_Mel_
    Just_Mel_ Posts: 3,992 Member
    Omigosh, you'd be my daughter's best friend.
    She's obsessed with them.
    I posted part of a story she wrote about them on my blog here once.
  • dc8066
    dc8066 Posts: 1,439 Member
    Only if hyenas are polite and responsible, show up on time, don't take my snacks withour asking
  • Timshel_
    Timshel_ Posts: 22,834 Member
    Hyenas are matriarchal, so there's that

    How Nagovisitic.
  • Vikka_V
    Vikka_V Posts: 9,563 Member
    I do respect hyenas. Have you seen their teeth?
    I can't tell or they look more like a dog or a cat.
    I find them cute and creepy
  • MomReborn
    MomReborn Posts: 145 Member
    I like 'em. <3
  • ShrinkingViolet1982
    ShrinkingViolet1982 Posts: 919 Member
    They giggle too much.
  • Timshel_
    Timshel_ Posts: 22,834 Member
    Why do hyenas get such a bad rap?

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    Timshel_ Posts: 22,834 Member
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    Timshel_ Posts: 22,834 Member
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    Timshel_ Posts: 22,834 Member
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  • SomebodyWakeUpHIcks
    SomebodyWakeUpHIcks Posts: 3,836 Member
    Dingos are better.

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  • SomebodyWakeUpHIcks
    SomebodyWakeUpHIcks Posts: 3,836 Member
    Dingos are better.

    Even when they eat your babies?

    More concerned about my fiancé. Have you seen my fiancé?
  • vespiquenn
    vespiquenn Posts: 1,455 Member
    I did a report on them in 4th grade. I was so damn proud of that report. Hyenas are the true badasses of the savannah.
  • FizikallyFit1
    FizikallyFit1 Posts: 32 Member
    I *kitten* love hyenas, their like giant vicious dogs. But low key intelligent AF and cute lil cuddle bugs.
  • Lounmoun
    Lounmoun Posts: 8,423 Member
    Well, when I was a little kid at the zoo looking at hyenas an adult told me a story of someone falling in and being eaten by hyenas. It terrified me which was funny to them. I've never really gotten over that and I'm in my 40's now. I don't disrespect them but feel pretty uncomfortable with them so I wouldn't think they were cool.
  • canadianlbs
    canadianlbs Posts: 5,199 Member
    Vikka_V wrote: »
    I can't tell or they look more like a dog or a cat.
    I find them cute and creepy

    that's what i think is the issue with them. people can't place them, so they're disturbing. it's like a mixture of coffee and tea. your brain goes UNNATURAL!!

    they're actually felines . . . ish. i think the wikipedia word was feliform. so they really are hybridy because a lot of their social behaviour is more canine.

    i like hyaenas. i thought it was so insanely cool when i found out they're not really part of any of the other species boxes. raccoons though. ain't nothing i can find to like about a raccoon.
  • ninerbuff
    ninerbuff Posts: 48,979 Member
    I don't trust an animal that runs with it's butt facing downward.

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  • FizikallyFit1
    FizikallyFit1 Posts: 32 Member
    Vikka_V wrote: »
    I can't tell or they look more like a dog or a cat.
    I find them cute and creepy

    that's what i think is the issue with them. people can't place them, so they're disturbing. it's like a mixture of coffee and tea. your brain goes UNNATURAL!!

    they're actually felines . . . ish. i think the wikipedia word was feliform. so they really are hybridy because a lot of their social behaviour is more canine.

    i like hyaenas. i thought it was so insanely cool when i found out they're not really part of any of the other species boxes. raccoons though. ain't nothing i can find to like about a raccoon.

    That is amazing, I always thought that they were more closely related to canines
  • Motorsheen
    Motorsheen Posts: 20,508 Member
    I *kitten* love hyenas, their like giant vicious dogs. But low key intelligent AF and cute lil cuddle bugs.

    ..... until they rip your face off like a rabid chimpanzee on bathsalts.
  • FizikallyFit1
    FizikallyFit1 Posts: 32 Member
    Motorsheen wrote: »
    I *kitten* love hyenas, their like giant vicious dogs. But low key intelligent AF and cute lil cuddle bugs.

    ..... until they rip your face off like a rabid chimpanzee on bathsalts.

  • FizikallyFit1
    FizikallyFit1 Posts: 32 Member
    Tf where did my reply go?
  • Motorsheen
    Motorsheen Posts: 20,508 Member
    Tf where did my reply go?

    A rabid hyena ate it.
  • FizikallyFit1
    FizikallyFit1 Posts: 32 Member
    edited April 2017
    Imma try it without the smiley faces.

    *Bunch of laughing hysterically faces*

    Cat's and dogs can bite your face off yet we still cuddling them. Also don't think a rabid hyena would need the bath salts in order to be vicious
  • FizikallyFit1
    FizikallyFit1 Posts: 32 Member
    Motorsheen wrote: »
    Tf where did my reply go?

    A rabid hyena ate it.

    Omg I laughed so fn hard at that sht
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